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