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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5
6Exim version 4.68
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8
9PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
10
11PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
12 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
13 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
14 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
15 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
16 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
17 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
18 for iplsearch lookups.
19
20 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
21 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
22 previously such lookups could never work.
23
24 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
25 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
26 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
27
28TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
29 version.
30
31MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
32 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
33 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
34 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
35 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
36 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
37
38TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
39 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
40
41MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
42 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
43 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
44 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
45 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
46 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
47
48PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
49 local_scan API.
50
51PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
52
53PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
54 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
55 encrypted.
56
57PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
58 by clients under certain conditions.
59
60PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
61 "_responses" off the end of the name.
62
63PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
64
65PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
66 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
67
68PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
69
70PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
71
72PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
73
74PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
75 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
76
77PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
78
79PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
80 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
81
82PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
83
84
85
86Exim version 4.67
87-----------------
88
89MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
90 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
91 Jan Srzednicki.
92
93PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
94 issue a MAIL command.
95
96PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
97
98 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
99
100 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
101 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
102 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
103 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
104 item. This has been fixed.
105
106PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
107 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
108
109PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
110 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
111
112PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
113 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
114 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
115
116SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
117
118PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
119 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
120 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
121 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
122 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
123
124MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
125 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
126 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
127
128PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
129 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
130 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
131 the server_setid option was incorrect.
132
133PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
134
135PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
136
137PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
138 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
139 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
140 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
141 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
142
143PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
144
145PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
146 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
147 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
148 values).
149
150PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
151
152PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
153
154PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
155
156PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
157
158PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
159
160PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
161 no_callout_flush is set.
162
163PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
164 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
165 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
166 fixed.
167
168PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
169
170PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
171 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
172 other ACL rejections are.
173
174PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
175 with slight modification.
176
177PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
178 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
179
180PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
181 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
182 connection.
183
184PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
185 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
186
187SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
188
189PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
190 expansion side effects.
191
192PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
193 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
194 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
195 be the same.
196
197MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
198 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
199 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
200
201PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
202 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
203 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
204 were accidentally chopped off.
205
206PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
207 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
208 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
209 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
210 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
211 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
212 pipelining has not been advertised.
213
214PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
215
216PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
217 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
218 This has been fixed.
219
220PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
221 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
222 reported on Solaris.
223
224PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
225 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
226 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
227 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
228 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
229 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
230 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
231
232PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
233 cpus.
234
235PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
236
237PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
238
239PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
240 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
241 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
242 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
243 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
244 criteria to be more general.
245
246PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
247 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
248 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
249 host_all_ignored option.
250
251PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
252 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
253 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
254 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
255 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
256 is what is supposed to happen).
257
258PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
259 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
260 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
261 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
262 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
263 uses the Exim user.
264
265PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
266 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
267 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
268 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
269 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
270 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
271 users.
272
273PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
274
275SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
276 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
277 (Jez Hancock).
278 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
279 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
280
281SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
282
283PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
284
285PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
286 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
287 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
288 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
289 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
290 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
291 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
292 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
293 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
294 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
295 least in a lot of common cases.
296
297PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
298 advertised in response to EHLO.
299
300
301Exim version 4.66
302-----------------
303
304PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
305 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
306
307 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
308 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
309
310 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
311 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
312 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
313
314 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
315 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
316 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
317 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
318 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
319
320
321Exim version 4.65
322-----------------
323
324TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
325 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
326 versions. (#438)
327
328MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
329 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
330 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
331
332PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
333 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
334 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
335 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
336 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
337 rather than extend the field.
338
339
340Exim version 4.64
341-----------------
342
343TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
344 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
345 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
346 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
347 these files.
348
349TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
350 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
351 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
352
353TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
354 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
355 hence the _LINUX specificness.
356
357TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
358 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
359 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
360 in the field name.
361
362PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
363 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
364 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
365 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
366 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
367 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
368 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
369 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
370 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
371 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
372 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
373
374PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
375 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
376
377PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
378 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
379 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
380 ignores EPIPE as well.
381
382PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
383 (quoted-printable decoding).
384
385PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
386 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
387
388PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
389
390PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
391
392PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
393
394PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
395 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
396
397JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
398 in 4.64-PH/09.
399
400JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
401 miscellaneous code fixes
402
403PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
404 rejections.
405
406PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
407 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
408 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
409 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
410 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
411 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
412 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
413 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
414
415PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
416 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
417 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
418 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
419 function.
420 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
421 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
422 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
423 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
424 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
425 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
426 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
427 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
428 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
429
430PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
431 decoding.
432
433PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
434 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
435 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
436 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
437 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
438 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
439 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
440 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
441
442PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
443 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
444 list.
445
446PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
447 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
448 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
449 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
450 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
451 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
452 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
453 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
454 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
455 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
456 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
457 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
458 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
459
460PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
461 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
462 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
463 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
464 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
465 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
466 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
467
468PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
469 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
470 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
471 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
472 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
473 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
474 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
475 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
476 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
477 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
478
479PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
480 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
481 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
482 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
483 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
484
485PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
486 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
487 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
488 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
489 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
490 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
491 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
492
493PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
494 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
495 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
496 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
497 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
498 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
499 been verified.
500
501PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
502 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
503 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
504 and authorization.)
505
506PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
507 if any retry times were supplied.
508
509PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
510 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
511 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
512
513PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
514
515PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
516
517PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
518 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
519 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
520 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
521 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
522 before) are ignored.
523
524PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
525 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
526
527PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
528 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
529 committing the later change.]
530
531PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
532 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
533 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
534 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
535 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
536 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
537 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
538 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
539 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
540
541 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
542 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
543 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
544 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
545 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
546 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
547 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
548 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
549 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
550
551 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
552 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
553 hammering the server.
554
555PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
556 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
557
558PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
559
560PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
561 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
562 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
563
564PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
565 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
566 one case where this was not true.
567
568PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
569 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
570 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
571 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
572 fails.
573
574PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
575 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
576 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
577 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
578 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
579 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
580 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
581 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
582 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
583 smtp transport.
584
585PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
586 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
587 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
588 same for both kinds of LMTP.
589
590PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
591 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
592
593PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
594 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
595 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
596
597PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
598
599PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
600
601PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
602
603PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
604 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
605 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
606 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
607
608PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
609 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
610
611PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
612 be meaningful with "accept".
613
614SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
615 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
616
617SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
618 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
619 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
620
621SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
622 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
623 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
624 there is data to show.
625 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
626
627SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
628 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
629 as well as the number of messages.
630
631SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
632 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
633 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
634
635SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
636 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
637 have a flag are now skipped.
638
639SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
640 Added the -emptyok flag.
641
642SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
643 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
644
645JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
646 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
647 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
648
649JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
650 match 4.64-PH/13
651
652JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
653 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
654
655JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
656
657JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
658 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
659
660PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
661
662PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
663 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
664 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
665 contravention of the specifications.
666
667PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
668 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
669 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
670
671PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
672 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
673 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
674
675PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
676
677MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
678 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
679 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
680 some point in the past.
681
682PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
683 transport during callout processing was broken.
684
685PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
686 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
687
688PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
689 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
690
691PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
692 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
693
694PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
695
696
697Exim version 4.63
698-----------------
699
700SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
701 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
702
703SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
704 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
705 there is data to show.
706 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
707
708SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
709 as the number of messages in eximstats.
710
711TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
712 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
713
714TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
715 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
716
717TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
718 submissions from trusted users.
719
720TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
721 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
722
723TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
724 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
725 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
726 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
727 there is now a framework to start from.
728
729PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
730 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
731 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
732
733PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
734
735PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
736
737PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
738
739PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
740 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
741 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
742
743PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
744 libradius.
745
746PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
747 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
748 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
749
750PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
751 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
752 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
753 its arguments.
754
755PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
756 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
757 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
758 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
759 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
760
761PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
762 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
763
764PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
765
766PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
767 operations in malware.c.
768
769PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
770 signatures.
771
772PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
773 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
774 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
775 all.
776
777PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
778 statements to "add_header".
779
780PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
781 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
782
783PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
784 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
785 latter.
786
787PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
788 so that it is now:
789
790 ${if or { \
791 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
792 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
793 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
794 }{no}{yes}}
795
796 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
797 don't think Precedence: ever was.
798
799PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
800 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
801
802PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
803 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
804 any possible encoding problems.
805
806PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
807 but not after initializing Perl.
808
809PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
810 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
811 apparently, which is not desirable.
812
813PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
814 queries.
815
816JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
817 --not options
818
819JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
820
821PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
822 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
823 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
824 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
825
826PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
827 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
828 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
829
830PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
831 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
832 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
833 0.12.
834
835PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
836 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
837 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
838 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
839 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
840
841
842Exim version 4.62
843-----------------
844
845TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
846 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
847
848PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
849 patch).
850
851PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
852 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
853 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
854 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
855 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
856 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
857 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
858 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
859 451 error is used.
860
861PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
862
863PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
864 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
865 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
866
867PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
868 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
869 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
870 odd errors.
871
872PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
873 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
874
875PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
876 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
877 option (which defaults to 0600).
878
879PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
880
881PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
882 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
883 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
884 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
885 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
886 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
887 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
888
889PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
890
891
892Exim version 4.61
893-----------------
894
895PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
896 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
897 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
898 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
899 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
900 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
901 addresses as local.
902
903PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
904 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
905
906PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
907
908PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
909 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
910 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
911 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
912 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
913 grumble.
914
915PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
916 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
917
918PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
919 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
920 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
921 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
922 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
923
924PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
925 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
926 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
927 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
928
929PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
930 be the same on different OS.
931
932PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
933 testing.
934
935JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
936 whether --show-vars was specified or not
937
938JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
939 in 4.61-PH/06
940
941PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
942 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
943 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
944 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
945 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
946 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
947 bounce message.
948
949PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
950 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
951 when Exim was called.
952
953PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
954 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
955
956PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
957 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
958 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
959 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
960
961PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
962 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
963 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
964 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
965 changes:
966
967 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
968 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
969 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
970
971 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
972 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
973 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
974
975PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
976 feature).
977
978PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
979 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
980 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
981 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
982 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
983 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
984 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
985 values from the SRV records were lost.
986
987PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
988 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
989 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
990
991PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
992 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
993 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
994
995PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
996 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
997 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
998 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
999 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1000 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1001 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1002 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1003 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1004 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1005
1006PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1007 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1008 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1009
1010PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1011 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1012
1013PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1014 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1015 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1016 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1017 is given.
1018
1019PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1020 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1021 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1022
1023PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1024 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1025 PH/23 above applies.
1026
1027PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1028 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1029 (for which there is an explicit test).
1030
1031PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1032
1033PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1034 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1035 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1036 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1037 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1038
1039PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1040 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1041 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1042 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1043
1044PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1045 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1046 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1047
1048PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1049
1050PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1051
1052PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1053 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1054 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1055
1056PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1057 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1058 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1059 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1060 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1061
1062PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1063 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1064 the message gets confusing).
1065
1066PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1067 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1068 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1069 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1070
1071PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1072 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1073 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1074 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1075 same order.
1076
1077PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1078 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1079 the different processes.
1080
1081PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1082
1083PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1084
1085JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1086 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1087
1088JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1089 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1090
1091JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1092 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1093 messages matching specified criteria.
1094
1095PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1096
1097PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1098 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1099
1100PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1101 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1102 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1103 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1104 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1105 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1106 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1107 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1108 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1109 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1110
1111PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1112 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1113 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1114
1115PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1116
1117PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1118 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1119 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1120 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1121 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1122 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1123 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1124 the variable.
1125
1126PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1127 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1128
1129PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1130
1131PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1132
1133PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1134
1135PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1136 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1137 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1138 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1139 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1140 size of the count of files.
1141
1142PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1143
1144PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1145 used in LMTP mode:
1146
1147 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1148 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1149 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1150 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1151
1152 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1153 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1154 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1155
1156PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1157 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1158 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1159 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1160 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1161
1162PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1163 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1164
1165PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1166 will now be deprecated.
1167
1168PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1169
1170JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1171 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1172 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1173
1174JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1175 with very large, slow to parse queues
1176
1177JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1178
1179JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1180
1181PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1182 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1183 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1184 SMTP output lines.
1185
1186PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1187 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1188 Sieve code now uses this.
1189
1190PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1191 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1192
1193PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1194 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1195
1196PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1197
1198PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1199 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1200 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1201 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1202 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1203
1204PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1205 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1206 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1207 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1208
1209PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1210
1211PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1212
1213PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1214 is preferred over IPv4.
1215
1216PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1217 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1218 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1219 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1220 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1221 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1222 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1223
1224PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1225 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1226 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1227
1228PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1229
1230PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1231 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1232 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1233 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1234 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1235 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1236 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1237 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1238 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1239 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1240 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1241
1242PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1243 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1244 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1245
1246
1247Exim version 4.60
1248-----------------
1249
1250PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1251
1252 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1253 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1254
1255 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1256 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1257 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1258
1259PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1260
1261 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1262 not a single digit.
1263
1264 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1265 string.
1266
1267 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1268 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1269 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1270 silly things.
1271
1272 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1273 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1274
1275 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1276 inside the third argument.
1277
1278PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1279 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1280 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1281
1282PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1283 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1284
1285PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1286 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1287
1288 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1289
1290 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1291 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1292 this:
1293
1294 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1295
1296PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1297 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1298 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1299 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1300 identical. For example:
1301
1302 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1303
1304 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1305 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1306 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1307
1308PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1309 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1310 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1311 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1312
1313PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1314 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1315 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1316 message.
1317
1318PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1319
1320 o fixes some comments
1321 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1322 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1323 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1324 and documents the missing references header update
1325
1326 and most important:
1327
1328 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1329 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1330 result)
1331
1332PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1333 Electronic Mail") by including:
1334
1335 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1336
1337 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1338 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1339 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1340 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1341 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1342
1343 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1344
1345 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1346
1347 The auto-replied keyword:
1348
1349 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1350 message by an automatic process,
1351
1352 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1353
1354 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1355 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1356
1357 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1358 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1359 other messages.
1360
1361PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1362 to the default Received: header definition.
1363
1364PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1365
1366PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1367 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1368 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1369
1370PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1371 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1372 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1373
1374PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1375 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1376 and treats the condition as false.
1377
1378PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1379
1380PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1381 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1382 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1383 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1384 not changing the active code.
1385
1386 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1387 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1388
1389 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1390 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1391
1392PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1393 (Bugzilla #53).
1394
1395PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1396 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1397 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1398 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1399 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1400 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1401 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1402 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1403 the text comparison.
1404
1405PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1406 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1407 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1408 The same fix has been applied.
1409
1410
1411Exim version 4.54
1412-----------------
1413
1414PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1415 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1416 It now does.
1417
1418PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1419 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1420
1421PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1422
1423PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1424 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1425 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1426 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1427 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1428
1429TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1430 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1431 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1432 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1433 or /domain=).
1434
1435PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1436 testing suite.
1437
1438
1439
1440Exim version 4.53
1441-----------------
1442
1443TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1444 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1445
1446PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1447
1448PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1449
1450PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1451 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1452 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1453
1454PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1455 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1456 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1457
1458PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1459 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1460 operating systems.
1461
1462PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1463 ${stat: expansion item.
1464
1465PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1466 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1467
1468PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1469 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1470 file for comments.
1471
1472PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1473
1474PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1475 setting.
1476
1477PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1478 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1479
1480TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1481
1482PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1483 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1484 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1485 the end of the subprocess.
1486
1487PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1488 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1489 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1490 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1491 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1492
1493JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1494
1495TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1496
1497PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1498 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1499
1500PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1501
1502PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1503
1504PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1505 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1506 HP-UX compiler.
1507
1508PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1509
1510PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1511 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1512 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1513
1514PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1515 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1516
1517PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1518 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1519
1520PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1521 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1522
1523 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1524 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1525
1526 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1527 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1528 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1529 contributed by a Radius user.
1530
1531PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1532 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1533
1534TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1535 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1536
1537PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1538 available.
1539
1540PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1541 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1542 received.
1543
1544PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1545 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1546 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1547 header lines when this was not necessary.
1548
1549PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1550
1551PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1552 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1553 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1554 exists".
1555
1556PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1557 -bV or -d is used.
1558
1559PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1560 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1561 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1562 return code was incorrect.
1563
1564PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1565
1566PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1567
1568TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1569
1570PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1571
1572PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1573 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1574 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1575 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1576 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1577 settings.
1578
1579PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1580
1581PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1582 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1583 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1584 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1585 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1586 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1587 which is clearly wrong.
1588
1589PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1590
1591PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1592 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1593 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1594 subsequently added.
1595
1596PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1597 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1598
1599PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1600
1601PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1602 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1603
1604PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1605 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1606
1607PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1608 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1609
1610PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1611 recipients, not senders.
1612
1613TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1614 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1615
1616PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1617
1618PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1619
1620PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1621 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1622 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1623 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1624
1625TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1626
1627TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1628 clock is set back in time.
1629
1630TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1631 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1632
1633TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1634 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1635
1636PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1637 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1638 (see PH/47 above).
1639
1640TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1641 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1642 header rewrites.
1643
1644PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1645 type ("H").
1646
1647PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1648
1649TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1650 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1651 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1652
1653TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1654 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1655 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1656 helo verification defer as a failure.
1657
1658PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1659 actual error message.
1660
1661
1662Exim version 4.52
1663-----------------
1664
1665TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1666
1667PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1668 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1669 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1670 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1671
1672TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1673
1674PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1675 can still be requested.
1676
1677PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1678 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1679 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1680 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1681
1682TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1683 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1684 circumstances, but probably never did.
1685
1686PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1687 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1688 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1689 in the header line.
1690
1691TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1692
1693TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1694 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
1695
1696TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1697
1698TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1699
1700PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1701 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1702 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1703 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1704 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1705 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
1706
1707PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1708 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1709 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1710 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1711 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1712 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1713
1714TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1715 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1716
1717PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1718 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1719
1720SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1721 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1722
1723SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1724
1725SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1726
1727SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1728
1729SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1730
1731SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1732
1733SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1734
1735TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1736
1737TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1738 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1739 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1740
1741TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1742 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1743 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1744 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1745
1746PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1747 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1748 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1749
1750PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1751 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1752 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1753 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1754
1755PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1756 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1757 to be made).
1758
1759PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1760 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1761 should work with maildirs and everything.
1762
1763TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1764 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1765
1766TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1767 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1768
1769PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1770 function for BDB 4.3.
1771
1772PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1773
1774PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1775 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1776 involved.
1777
1778PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1779 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1780 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
1781 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1782 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1783 formatting function string_vformat().
1784
1785PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1786 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1787 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1788 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1789 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1790 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1791 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1792 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1793
1794TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1795 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1796 details.
1797
1798PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1799 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1800
1801PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1802 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1803 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1804 test. It is now used for both.
1805
1806PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1807 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1808 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1809 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1810 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1811 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1812
1813PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1814 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1815 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1816 string_vformat().
1817
1818PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1819 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1820 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
1821
1822PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1823 experimental DomainKeys support:
1824
1825 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1826 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1827 the control was given.
1828
1829 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1830
1831PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1832
1833PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1834
1835PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1836 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1837 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1838 db.h files).
1839
1840PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
1841 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1842 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1843 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1844 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1845 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1846 course.
1847
1848PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1849 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1850 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1851 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1852 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1853 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1854
1855PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1856 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1857 do -d+all out of habit.
1858
1859PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1860 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1861 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1862
1863PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1864 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1865 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1866 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1867 record types that Exim uses.
1868
1869PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1870 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1871 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1872 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1873 non-existent file that was broken.
1874
1875TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1876 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1877
1878TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1879 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1880 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1881
1882TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1883
1884PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1885 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1886 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1887 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1888 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1889 same time.
1890
1891SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1892 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1893 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1894 at a slight CPU cost.
1895
1896SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1897 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1898
1899SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1900 by Marc Sherman.
1901
1902SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1903
1904PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1905 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1906
1907
1908Exim version 4.51
1909-----------------
1910
1911TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1912 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1913
1914TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1915
1916TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1917
1918PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1919 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1920
1921PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1922 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1923 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1924 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1925 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1926 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1927 file.
1928
1929PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1930 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1931 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1932 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1933 these two options.
1934
1935PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1936 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1937 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1938 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1939 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1940 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1941 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
1942 address.
1943
1944PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1945 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1946
1947PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1948 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1949 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1950 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1951 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1952 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1953
1954PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1955 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1956 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1957 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1958
1959PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1960 Finch).
1961
1962PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1963 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
1964
1965PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1966 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
1967 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1968 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1969 message.
1970
1971PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1972
1973PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1974 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1975
1976PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1977 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1978 to what was transported.)
1979
1980TF/01 Added $received_time.
1981
1982PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1983 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1984 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1985 spamd_address settings.
1986
1987PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1988 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1989 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1990 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1991 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1992
1993PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1994
1995PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1996 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1997 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1998 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1999 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2000
2001PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2002 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2003
2004PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2005 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2006 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2007 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2008 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2009 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2010 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2011 for failure.
2012
2013PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2014 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2015 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2016 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2017 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2018 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2019 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2020 "input=".
2021
2022PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2023
2024PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2025 driver and ACL definitions.
2026
2027PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2028 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2029
2030PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2031 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2032 understands it better than I do:
2033
2034 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2035 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2036
2037 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2038 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2039 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2040 => three warnings about OTP not working
2041 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2042
2043 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2044 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2045 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2046 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2047 for each call.)
2048 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2049 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2050
2051 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2052 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2053 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2054
2055PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2056 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2057 specified.
2058
2059PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2060 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2061 "Linux".
2062
2063PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2064 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2065 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2066
2067 warn !verify = sender
2068 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2069
2070 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2071 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2072
2073PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2074
2075 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2076 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2077
2078 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2079 nomenclature these days.)
2080
2081PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2082 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2083
2084PH/30 In these circumstances:
2085 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2086 . First host does not offer TLS;
2087 . First host accepts first address;
2088 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2089 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2090 . Second host accepts second address.
2091 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2092 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2093 address.
2094
2095PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2096 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2097 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2098 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2099 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2100
2101PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2102 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2103
2104PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2105 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2106
2107PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2108 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2109 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2110
2111PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2112 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2113 overlooked.
2114
2115PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2116
2117PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2118 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2119 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2120 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2121 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2122 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2123 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2124
2125 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2126 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2127 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2128 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2129 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2130
2131 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2132 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2133 routed further.
2134
2135PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2136 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2137 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2138 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2139 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2140 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2141
2142PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2143
2144PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2145 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2146 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2147 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2148 printable escape sequences.
2149
2150PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2151 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2152 body only.
2153
2154PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2155 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2156 are as follows:
2157
2158 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2159 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2160 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2161 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2162 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2163
2164 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2165 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2166 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2167
2168PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2169
2170PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2171 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2172 play with."
2173
2174PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2175 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2176 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2177 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2178 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2179 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2180 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2181 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2182 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2183 the log output.
2184
2185PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2186 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2187 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2188 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2189 "make".
2190
2191
2192A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2193----------------------------------------
2194
2195Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2196changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2197needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2198in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2199that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2200release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2201from 4.43.
2202
2203I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
22044.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2205those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2206historical information.
2207
2208
2209Exim version 4.50
2210-----------------
2211
2212 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2213
2214 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2215 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2216
2217 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2218 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2219 place.
2220
2221 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2222 filter fails to execute.
2223
2224 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2225 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2226 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2227 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2228 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2229
2230 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2231
2232 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2233 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2234 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2235 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2236
2237 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2238 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2239 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2240 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2241 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2242
2243 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2244
224510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2246
224711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2248 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2249 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2250 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2251
225212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2253 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2254 sender verification.
2255
225613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2257 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2258
225914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2260
226115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2262 connection timeout.
2263
226416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2265 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2266
226717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2268 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2269
227018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2271 information about exactly what failed.
2272
227319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2274
227520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2276 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2277 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2278
227921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2280 It is now set to "smtps".
2281
228222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2283 ignore_target_hosts.
2284
228523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2286 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2287 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2288 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2289 "[x.x.x.x]".
2290
229124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2292 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2293 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2294
229525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2296 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2297 wake it up if nothing else does.
2298
229926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2300 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2301 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2302 end up negative.
2303
230427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2305 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2306
230728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2308
230929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2310 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2311 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2312 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2313 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2314 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2315 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2316 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2317
231830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2319 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2320 than one IP address.
2321
232231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2323 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2324 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2325 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2326
232732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2328 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2329 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2330 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2331 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2332 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2333
233433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2335 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2336 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2337 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2338
233934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2340 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2341 respected.
2342
234335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2344 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2345 $sender_host_address.
2346
234736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2348 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2349 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2350 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2351 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2352 very small.
2353
235437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2355
2356 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2357 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2358
2359 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2360 just the host names, not the priorities.
2361
2362 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2363 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2364 controlled by a keyword.
2365
2366 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2367 multiple records are returned.
2368
236938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2370 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2371 domain.
2372
237339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2374
237540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2376 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2377
237841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2379 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2380 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2381
238242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2383
238443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2385
238644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2387
238845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2389 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2390 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2391 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2392 because the tests only now provoked it.
2393
239446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2395 (this can affect the format of dates).
2396
239747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2398 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2399 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2400 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2401
240248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2403
240449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2405 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2406 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2407 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2408
240950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2410 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2411 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2412
241351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2414 autoreply.
2415
241652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2417 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2418 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2419 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2420 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2421 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2422 is going on).
2423
242453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2425 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2426 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2427 the line.
2428
242954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2430 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2431 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2432
2433 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2434 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2435 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2436 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2437 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2438 so I produce this patch..."
2439
2440 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2441 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2442 is not defined.
2443
244455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2445 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2446 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2447 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2448 CAN-2005-0021
2449
245056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2451
245257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2453 long debug lines gets shown.
2454
245558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2456 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2457
245859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2459
2460 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2461 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2462 of $primary_hostname.
2463
246460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2465 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2466 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2467 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2468 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2469 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2470 by change 4.50/55 above.
2471
2472 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2473 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2474 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2475 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2476 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2477 running as the user.
2478 CAN-2005-0021
2479
248061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2481 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2482 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2483 CAN-2005-0022
2484
248562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2486 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2487
248863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2489 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2490 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2491 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2492 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2493
249464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2495 This has been fixed.
2496
249765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2498 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2499 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2500 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2501 the caching.)
2502
250366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2504
250567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2506 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2507 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2508 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2509
251068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2511 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2512
251369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2514 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2515 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2516
251770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2518 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2519 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2520 message there.
2521
252271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2523 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2524 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2525
252672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2527 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2528 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2529 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2530
253173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2532 during host lookups.
2533
253474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2535 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2536
2537 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2538
253975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2540 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2541 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2542 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2543 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2544 background.
2545
254676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2547 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2548
254977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2550 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2551 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2552
255378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2554
255579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2556 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2557 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2558 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2559 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2560 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2561 process earlier.
2562
256380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2564 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2565 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2566 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2567 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2568
256981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2570 tables).
2571
257282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2573
257483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2575 "vacation" handling.
2576
257784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2578 OS variants using glibc.
2579
258085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2581
2582
2583----------------------------------------------------
2584See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2585----------------------------------------------------
2586
2587
2588Exim version 4.44
2589-----------------
2590
2591 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2592 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2593 transport
2594
2595 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2596 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2597 place.
2598
2599 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2600 filter fails to execute.
2601
2602 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2603 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2604 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2605 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2606 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2607
2608 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2609 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2610 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2611 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2612
2613 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2614 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2615 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2616 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2617 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2618
2619 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2620
2621 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2622 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2623 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2624 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2625
2626 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2627 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2628 sender verification.
2629
263010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2631 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2632
263311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2634 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2635
263612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2637 ignore_target_hosts.
2638
263913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2640 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2641 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2642 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2643 "[x.x.x.x]".
2644
264514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2646 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2647 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2648
264915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2650 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2651 wake it up if nothing else does.
2652
265316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2654 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2655 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2656 end up negative.
2657
265817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2659 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2660
266118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
2662
266319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2664 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2665 empty pattern.
2666
266720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2668 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2669 one IP address.
2670
267121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2672 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2673 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2674 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2675 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2676 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2677
267822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2679 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2680 respected.
2681
268223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2683 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2684 $sender_host_address.
2685
268624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2687
268825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2689 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2690 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2691
269226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
2693 As per change 25.
2694
269527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2696 (this can affect the format of dates).
2697
269828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2699 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2700 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2701 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2702
270329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2704 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2705 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2706
270730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2708 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2709 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2710 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2711
271231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2713 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2714 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2715
271631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2717 autoreply.
2718
271932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2720 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2721 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2722 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2723 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2724 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2725 is going on).
2726
272733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2728 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2729 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2730 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2731 CAN-2005-0021
2732
273334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2734 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2735 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2736 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2737 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2738 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2739 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2740
2741 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2742 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2743 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2744 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2745 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2746 running as the user.
2747 CAN-2005-0021
2748
274935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2750 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2751 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2752 CAN-2005-0022
2753
275436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2755 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2756 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2757 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2758 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2759
276037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2761 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2762 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2763 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2764 the caching.)
2765
276638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2767 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2768 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2769 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2770 because the tests only now provoked it.
2771
2772
2773Exim version 4.43
2774-----------------
2775
2776 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2777 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2778 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2779 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2780 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2781 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2782 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2783
2784 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2785 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2786 the delivery.
2787
2788 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2789
2790 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2791
2792 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2793 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2794 to local_scan().
2795
2796 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2797 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2798 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2799 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2800 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2801
2802 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2803 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2804
2805 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2806
2807 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2808
280910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2810 header_sender only.
2811
281211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2813 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2814
281512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2816 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2817 affecting debugging statements).
2818
281913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2820
282114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2822 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2823 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2824 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2825 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2826 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2827 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2828 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2829 after the received time, and all would be well.
2830
283115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2832 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2833 condition in an expansion string.
2834
283516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2836
283717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2838 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2839 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2840 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2841 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2842 job under whatever limits there are.
2843
284418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2845
284619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2847 space).
2848
284920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2850 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2851 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2852 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2853 return path is set.
2854
285521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2856 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2857 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2858 binary data in such strings.
2859
286022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2861
286223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2863 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2864 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2865 failure, which is pointless.
2866
286724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2868
286925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2870
287126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2872 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2873 Sender: header lines.
2874
287527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2876 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2877 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2878
287928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2880 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2881 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2882 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2883 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2884 happens.
2885
288629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2887 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2888 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2889 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2890 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2891
289230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2893 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2894 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2895 1024.
2896
289731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2898 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2899
290032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2901 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2902
290333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2904
290532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2906
290733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2908
290934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2910 syntax error.
2911
291235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2913
291436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2915
291637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2917 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2918 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2919 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2920
292138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2922 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2923
2924
2925Exim version 4.42
2926-----------------
2927
2928 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2929 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2930 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2931 it was not quoted.
2932 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2933 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2934 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2935 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2936 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2937 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2938
2939 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2940 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2941 verification failure".
2942
2943 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2944 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2945 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2946 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2947
2948 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2949 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2950 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2951 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2952 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2953 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2954 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2955 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2956 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2957 treated as a timeout.
2958
2959 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2960 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2961 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2962 not set for Exim filters).
2963
2964 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2965 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2966 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2967
2968 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2969
2970 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2971 try to make them clearer.
2972
2973 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2974 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2975
2976 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2977
2978 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2979
298010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2981 only the Cygwin environment.
2982
298311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2984 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2985 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2986 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2987 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2988
298912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2990 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2991 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2992 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2993 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2994 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2995 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2996
299713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2998 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2999
300014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3001
3002 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3003 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3004 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3005
3006 To: susanne@some.where
3007
3008 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3009 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3010 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3011 of addresses in From: header lines).
3012
3013 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3014 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3015 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3016
3017 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3018 treated as non-personal.
3019
3020 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3021 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3022
302315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3024
302516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3026
302717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3028 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3029 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3030
303118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3032 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3033
303419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3035 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3036 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3037 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3038 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3039 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3040
304120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3042 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3043 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3044 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3045 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3046 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3047 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3048 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3049
3050 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3051
305221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3053 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3054
305522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3056 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3057 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3058
305923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3060 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3061
306224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3063 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3064 rather than long int.
3065
306625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3067
306826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3069
3070
3071Exim version 4.41
3072-----------------
3073
3074 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3075 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3076 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3077 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3078 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3079 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3080
3081
3082Exim version 4.40
3083-----------------
3084
3085 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3086 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3087
3088 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3089 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3090 socklen_t is defined.
3091
3092 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3093 always exist.
3094
3095 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3096 configured.
3097
3098 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3099 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3100 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3101 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3102 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3103
3104 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3105 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3106 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3107 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3108
3109 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3110 of flapping under certain conditions.
3111
3112 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3113 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3114 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3115
3116 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3117
311810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3119
312011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3121 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3122 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3123 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3124
312512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3126 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3127 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3128 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3129 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3130 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3131 preserved with the message after it was received.
3132
313313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3134 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3135 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3136 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3137 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3138 test suite worked just fine.
3139
314014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3141 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3142 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3143
314415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3145 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3146 string.
3147
314816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3149 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3150 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3151 does not fully solve it.
3152
315317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3154 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3155 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3156 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3157 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3158
315918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3160 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3161 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3162
316319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3164 string, for example:
3165
3166 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3167
3168 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3169 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3170 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3171 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3172 the routers could not see them.
3173
317420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3175 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3176
317721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3178 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3179 output).
3180
318122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3182 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3183 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3184 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3185 that needed quoting.
3186
318723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3188 was not being matched caselessly.
3189
319024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3191 backslashes.
3192
319325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3194 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3195 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3196 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3197 when use_sender is false.
3198
319926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3200
320127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3202
320328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3204
320529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3206 the configuration file.
3207
320830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3209 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3210
321131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3212
321332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3214 bytes in the message body.
3215
321633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3217 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3218 delivery.
3219
322034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3221
322235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3223
322436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3225 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3226 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3227 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3228 another IP address.
3229
3230
3231Exim version 4.34
3232-----------------
3233
3234 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3235 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3236
3237 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3238 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3239 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3240 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3241 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3242
3243 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3244 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3245
3246 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3247 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3248 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3249
3250 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3251 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3252 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3253
3254 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3255 for routers.
3256
3257 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3258 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3259 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3260 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3261 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3262 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3263 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3264
3265
3266Exim version 4.33
3267-----------------
3268
3269 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3270 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3271 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3272 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3273 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3274 default (and expected) setting.
3275
3276 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3277 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3278 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3279 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3280
3281 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3282 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3283
3284 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3285 in domain lists.
3286
3287 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3288 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3289 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3290 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3291 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3292 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3293
3294 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3295 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3296 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3297
3298 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3299 part (NOT match_host).
3300
3301 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3302
3303 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3304 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3305 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3306 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3307 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3308 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3309 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3310 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3311 the same named file.
3312
331310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3314 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3315 when Exim is built.
3316
331711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3318 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3319 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3320 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3321 a host name.
3322
332312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3324 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3325 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3326
332713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3328
332914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3330
333115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3332
333316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3334 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3335
333617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3337 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3338 before starting the TLS session.
3339
334018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3341
334219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3343 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3344
334520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3346 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3347 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3348 colon in the middle).
3349
3350
3351Exim version 4.32
3352-----------------
3353
3354 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3355 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3356 multiple configurations are in use.
3357
3358 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3359 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3360 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3361 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3362 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3363 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3364
3365 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3366 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3367
3368 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3369 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3370 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3371
3372 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3373 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3374 occurs.
3375
3376 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3377 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3378
3379 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3380
3381 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3382 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3383
3384 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3385
3386 -prval:sval
3387
3388 is equivalent to
3389
3390 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3391
3392 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3393 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3394 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3395 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3396 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3397
339810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3399 Exim's behaviour:
3400
3401 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3402 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3403 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3404 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3405 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3406 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3407
3408 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3409 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3410 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3411 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3412 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3413 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3414 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3415 string.
3416
3417 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3418 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3419 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3420 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3421 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3422
342311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3424
342512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3426 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3427 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3428
342913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3430
343114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3432 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3433 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3434 information.
3435
343615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3437 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3438
343916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3440 Three changes have been made:
3441
3442 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3443 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3444 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3445 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3446 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3447
3448 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3449 been restored.
3450
3451 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3452 the modified behaviour.
3453
3454
3455Exim version 4.31
3456-----------------
3457
3458 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3459 Larry Rosenman.
3460
3461 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3462 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3463
3464 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3465 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3466 try to track down a specific problem.
3467
3468 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3469 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3470 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3471
3472 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3473 warning.
3474
3475 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3476 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3477 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3478 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3479 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3480 some earlier ones do not.
3481
3482 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3483
3484 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3485 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3486 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3487 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3488 address literals are enabled, of course).
3489
3490 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3491
349210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3493 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3494 by a command such as
3495
3496 exim -f "" ...
3497
3498 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3499
350011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3501
350212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3503 remained set. It is now erased.
3504
350513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3506 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3507
350814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3509 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3510 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3511 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3512 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3513 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3514 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3515 appropriate error code.
3516
351715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3518 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3519 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3520 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3521 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3522 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3523
352416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3525 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3526 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3527
352817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3529 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3530 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3531 terminate the header.
3532
353318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3534 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3535 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3536
353719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3538 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3539 (4.30/29). In particular:
3540
3541 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3542 imposed.
3543
3544 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3545 to write a maildirsize file.
3546
3547 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3548 the transport, the new value overrides.
3549
3550 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3551 count.
3552
355320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3554 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3555 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3556 space or a tab.
3557
355821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3559 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3560 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3561 the fallback hosts.
3562
356322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3564 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3565 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3566
356723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3568 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3569 using a union.
3570
357124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3572 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3573 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3574
357525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3576
357726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3578
357927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3580
358128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3582 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3583 become corrupted.
3584
358529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3586 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3587 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3588 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3589 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3590 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3591 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3592 too great.
3593
359430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3595 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3596 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3597 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3598 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3599 incorrectly.
3600
360131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3602 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3603 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3604 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3605 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3606 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3607 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3608 cached value only when the same options are set.
3609
361032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3611
361233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3613 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3614 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3615 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3616 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3617
361834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3619 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3620 it is clearly obsolete.
3621
362235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3623 transport.
3624
362536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3626 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3627 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3628 times.
3629
363037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3631 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3632 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3633 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3634 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3635
363638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3637 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3638 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3639 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3640
364139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3642
3643 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3644
3645 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3646 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3647 2^31.
3648
364940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3650 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3651 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3652 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3653 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3654 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3655 $localpart_data.
3656
365741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3658 with the -f command-line option.
3659
366042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3661 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3662 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3663 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3664 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3665 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3666
366743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3668 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3669 line.
3670
367144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3672 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3673 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3674 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3675 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3676 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3677 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3678 buffer is too small.
3679
368045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3681 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3682
368346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3684 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3685 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3686 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3687 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3688 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3689 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3690 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3691 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3692
369347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3694 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3695 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3696
369748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3698 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3699 ACL").
3700
370149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3702 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3703 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3704 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3705 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3706
370750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3708 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3709 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3710 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3711 is set.
3712
371351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3714
371552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3716
371753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3718 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3719
372054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3721 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3722 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3723
372455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3725 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3726 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3727 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3728 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3729
373056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3731 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3732 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3733 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3734 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3735 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3736 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3737
373857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3739 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3740 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3741 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3742 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3743 the test of how many are available.
3744
374558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3746 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3747 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3748 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3749 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3750 new message is started.
3751
375259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3753 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3754
375560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3756 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3757
375861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3759 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3760 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3761 is no long logged.
3762
376362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3764 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3765 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3766 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3767 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3768 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3769 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3770
377163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3772 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3773 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3774 interpreted as octal.
3775
377664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3777 setting.
3778
377965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3780 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3781 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3782 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3783 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3784 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3785
378666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3787 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3788 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3789 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3790
3791 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3792 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3793 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3794 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3795
3796 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3797 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3798 is a bug fix.
3799
3800 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3801 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3802
380367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3804
380568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3806 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3807 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3808 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3809
381069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3811 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3812 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3813 supplied", which is not helpful.
3814
381570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3816 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3817 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3818
381971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3820 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3821 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3822 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3823 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3824 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3825 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3826 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3827
382872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3829 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3830 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3831 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3832 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3833
383473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3835 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3836 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3837 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3838 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3839 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3840
384174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3842 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3843 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3844
384575. Added write_rejectlog option.
3846
384776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3848 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3849 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3850 variables.
3851
385277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3853
385478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3855 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3856 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3857 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3858 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3859 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3860 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3861 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3862
386379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3864 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3865 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3866 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3867 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3868
386980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3870 Haardt.
3871
387281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3873 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3874 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3875 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3876 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3877 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3878 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3879 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3880 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3881
3882
3883Exim version 4.30
3884-----------------
3885
3886 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3887 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3888 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3889
3890 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3891 fixed.
3892
3893 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3894 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3895 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3896
3897 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3898 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3899 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3900 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3901 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3902 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3903
3904 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3905 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3906 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3907 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3908 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3909 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3910 the Exim test suite.
3911
3912 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3913 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3914 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3915 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3916
3917 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3918 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3919 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3920 specify it in this variable.
3921
3922 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3923 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3924 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3925 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3926
3927 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3928 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3929 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3930 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3931
3932 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3933 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3934 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3935 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3936 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3937
3938 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3939
394010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3941 they are logged.
3942
394311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3944 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3945 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3946 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3947 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3948
394912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3950 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3951
395213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3953 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3954 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3955 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3956 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3957
395814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3959 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3960
396115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3962 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3963 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3964
396516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3966 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3967
396817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3969 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3970
397118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3972 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3973 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3974
397519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3976 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3977
397820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3979 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3980 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3981 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3982
398321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3984
398522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3986 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3987 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3988 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3989
399023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3991
399224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3993 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3994
399525. Added .include_if_exists.
3996
399726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3998 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3999 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4000 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4001 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4002 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4003
400427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4005
400628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4007 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4008 this.
4009
401029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4011
401230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4013 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4014
4015 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4016 550 Sender verify failed
4017
4018 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4019 the final line of the response.
4020
402131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4022 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4023 all other user lookups.
4024
402532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4026 delivery time.
4027
402833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4029 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4030 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4031 result into an int without checking.
4032
403334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4034 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4035 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4036
403735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4038 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4039 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4040 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4041
404236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4043 correctly.
4044
404537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4046 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4047
404838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4049 to the empty sender.
4050
405139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4052 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4053 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4054 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4055 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4056 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4057 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4058 panic log.
4059
406040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4061 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4062 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4063 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4064 used.
4065
406641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4067 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4068
406942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4070 timestamps.
4071
407243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4073 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4074
407544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4076
407745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4078 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4079 logs.
4080
408146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4082 as soon as it is encountered.
4083
408447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4085
408648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4087 rewritten to "<>".
4088
408949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4090 recognizes a tab character.
4091
409250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4093 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4094 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4095 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4096
409751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4098
409952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4100 crash.
4101
410253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4103
410454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4105
410655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4107 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4108 2822.
4109
411056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4111 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4112 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4113 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4114 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4115
411657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4117 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4118
411958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4120 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4121 list (.included file names were always shown).
4122
412359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4124 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4125 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4126 root at that time.
4127
412860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4129 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4130
413161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4132
413362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4134
413563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4136
413764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4138 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4139 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4140 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4141 failures to open the logs.
4142
414365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4144 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4145 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4146 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4147 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4148 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4149 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4150
4151
4152Exim version 4.24
4153-----------------
4154
4155 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4156 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4157 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4158 change 4.23/1.
4159
4160 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4161 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4162 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4163
4164 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4165 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4166 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4167
4168 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4169 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4170 causing some misleading effects.
4171
4172 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4173 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4174 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4175
4176 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4177 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4178 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4179 queue-runner function directly.
4180
4181
4182Exim version 4.23
4183-----------------
4184
4185 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4186 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4187
4188 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4189 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4190 was always written to the default place.
4191
4192 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4193 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4194 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4195
4196 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4197
4198 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4199
4200 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4201 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4202 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4203
4204 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4205 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4206 must start.
4207
4208 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4209 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4210 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4211
4212 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4213 command line option is disabled.
4214
4215 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4216 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4217
4218 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4219
4220 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4221
4222 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4223 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4224
422510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4226
422711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4228 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4229 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4230 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4231 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4232 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4233
423412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4235 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4236 timeout.
4237
423813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4239 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4240
424114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4242 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4243
424415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4245 received was valid base64.
4246
424716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4248 name of the variable that was being set.
4249
425017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4251
425218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4253 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4254 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4255 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4256 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4257 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4258
425919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4260
426120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4262 nor realm was specified.
4263
426421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4265 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4266 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4267 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4268
426922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4270 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4271 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4272
427323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4274 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4275 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4276
427724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4278 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4279 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4280 some systems use these upper case variants.
4281
428225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4283 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4284 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4285 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4286
428726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4288
428927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4290 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4291
429228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4293 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4294 expansion variable.
4295
429629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4297
429830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4299 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4300 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4301 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4302
430331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4304 using it.
4305
430632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4307 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4308 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4309
431033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4311 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4312
431334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4314 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4315 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4316 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4317
431835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4319 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4320 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4321
432236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4323
432437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4325 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4326 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4327 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4328 aborted.
4329
433038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4331 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4332 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4333
433439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4335
433640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4337 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4338
433941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4340 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4341
434242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4343 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4344 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4345 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4346 when emails are that large.
4347
4348
4349
4350Exim version 4.22
4351-----------------
4352
4353 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4354 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4355
4356 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4357 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4358 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4359
4360 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4361 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4362 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4363
4364 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4365 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4366 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4367 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4368 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4369
4370 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4371 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4372 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4373 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4374 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4375 ever.
4376
4377 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4378 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4379 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4380 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4381 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4382 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4383 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4384 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4385 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4386 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4387 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4388 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4389 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4390 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4391
4392 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4393 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4394 parameterised it.
4395
4396 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4397 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4398 error should be diagnosed.
4399
4400 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4401 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4402 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4403 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4404 appeared instead of "NULL".
4405
440610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4407 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4408 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4409 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4410 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4411 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4412 proceeds).
4413
4414 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4415 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4416 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4417
4418
4419Exim version 4.21
4420-----------------
4421
4422 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4423 or receiver verification errors.
4424
4425 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4426 name.
4427
4428 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4429 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4430 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4431 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4432
4433 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4434 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4435 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4436 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4437 shouldn't happen again.
4438
4439 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4440 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4441 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4442
4443 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4444 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4445
4446 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4447
4448 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4449 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4450
4451 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4452 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4453 RFC.
4454
445510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4456 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4457 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4458
445911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4460 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4461 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4462 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4463
446412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4465 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4466 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4467 to define what should happen).
4468
446913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4470 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4471 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4472
447314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4474
447515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4476
447716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4478 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4479
448017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4481 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4482 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4483 structure in all cases.
4484
4485 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4486 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4487 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4488 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4489
449018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4491 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4492 domain name.
4493
449419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4495 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4496
449720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4498 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4499
450021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4501 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4502 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4503
450422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4505 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4506 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4507
450823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4509 the book and for uniformity.
4510
451124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4512
451325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4514 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4515 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4516 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4517 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4518 non-existent command as the problem.
4519
452026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4521 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4522 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4523
452427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4525
452628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4527 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4528 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4529
453029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4531 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4532 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4533 timestamps using strftime().
4534
453530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4536 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4537
453832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4539 transport-time rewrites.
4540
454133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4542 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4543 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4544 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4545
454634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4547 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4548
454935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4550 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4551 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4552 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4553 comma and a space.
4554
455536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4556 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4557 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4558 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4559 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4560 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4561 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4562
456337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4564 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4565 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4566 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4567 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4568
456938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4570 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4571 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4572 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4573 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4574 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4575 remaining text gets split now.
4576
457739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4578 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4579 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4580 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4581
458240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4583 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4584 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4585 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4586 $return_path.
4587
458841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4589 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4590 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4591 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4592 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4593 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4594 passed through if needed.
4595
459642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4597 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4598 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4599 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4600 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4601 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4602
460343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4604 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4605 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4606 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4607 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4608
460944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4610 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4611 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4612 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4613 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4614
461545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4616 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4617 noticed.
4618
461946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4620 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4621 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4622 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4623 mayhem of various kinds.
4624
462547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4626 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4627 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4628 the right test for positive values.
4629
463048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4631 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4632 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4633 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4634 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4635 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4636 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4637 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4638 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4639 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4640 envelope.
4641
464249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4643 module.
4644
464550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4646 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4647 forbidding it.
4648
464951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4650 the existing equality matching.
4651
465252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4653 dealing with inode numbers.
4654
465553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4656 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4657 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4658
465954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4660 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4661 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4662 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4663 local_scan().
4664
466555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4666 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4667 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4668 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4669 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4670 relay addresses has also been removed.
4671
467256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4673
467457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4675 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4676 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4677
467858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4679 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4680 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4681 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4682 processing applies to CR:
4683
4684 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4685 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4686
4687 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4688 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4689 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4690 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4691
469259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4693 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4694 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4695
469660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4697 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4698 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4699 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4700 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4701 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4702 arisen.
4703
470461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4705 program routers.
4706
470762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4708 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4709 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4710 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4711 adds:
4712
4713 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4714
4715 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4716
4717 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4718
471963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4720 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4721 not considered personal.
4722
472364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4724
472565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4726
472766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4728
472967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4730 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4731 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4732 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4733 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4734 header lines, and spool format errors.
4735
473668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4737 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4738 for more flexibility.
4739
474069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4741 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4742 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4743
474470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4745 Sabourenkov.
4746
474771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4748 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4749 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4750 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4751 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4752 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4753 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4754 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4755 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4756
475772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4758 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4759 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4760 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4761 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4762 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4763 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4764
476573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4766 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4767 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4768
476974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4770 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4771 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4772 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4773 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4774 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4775 instead of killing the process with assert().
4776
477775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4778 than Unicode encoding.
4779
478076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4781 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4782 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4783 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4784
478577. Added process_log_path.
4786
478778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4788 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4789
479079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4791 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4792
479380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4794 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4795 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4796
479781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4798 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4799 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4800 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4801 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4802 were applied:
4803
4804 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4805 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4806 as invalid.
4807
480882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4809 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4810 they will be used during message reception.
4811
4812
4813Exim version 4.20
4814-----------------
4815
4816The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4817
4818****