1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.224 2005/09/12 15:09:55 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
10 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
12 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
14 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
16 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
17 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
18 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
20 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
21 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
22 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
24 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
25 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
28 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
29 ${stat: expansion item.
31 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
32 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
34 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
35 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
38 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
40 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
43 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
44 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
46 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
48 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
49 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
50 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
51 the end of the subprocess.
53 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
54 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
55 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
56 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
57 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
59 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
61 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
63 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
64 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
66 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
68 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
70 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
71 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
74 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
76 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
77 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
78 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
80 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
81 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
83 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
84 host errors such as "Connection refused".
86 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
87 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
89 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
90 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
92 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
93 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
94 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
95 contributed by a Radius user.
97 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
98 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
100 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
101 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
103 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
106 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
107 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
110 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
111 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
112 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
113 header lines when this was not necessary.
115 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
117 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
118 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
119 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
122 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
125 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
126 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
127 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
128 return code was incorrect.
130 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
132 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
134 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
136 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
138 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
139 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
140 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
141 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
142 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
145 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
147 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
148 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
149 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
150 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
151 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
152 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
153 which is clearly wrong.
155 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
157 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
158 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
159 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
162 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
163 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
165 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
167 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
168 the "build-* directories that it finds.
170 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
171 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
173 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
174 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
180 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
182 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
183 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
184 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
185 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
187 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
189 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
190 can still be requested.
192 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
193 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
194 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
195 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
197 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
198 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
199 circumstances, but probably never did.
201 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
202 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
203 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
206 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
208 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
209 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
211 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
213 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
215 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
216 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
217 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
218 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
219 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
220 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
222 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
223 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
224 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
225 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
226 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
227 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
229 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
230 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
232 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
233 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
235 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
236 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
238 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
240 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
242 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
244 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
246 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
248 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
250 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
252 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
253 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
254 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
256 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
257 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
258 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
259 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
261 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
262 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
263 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
265 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
266 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
267 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
268 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
270 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
271 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
274 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
275 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
276 should work with maildirs and everything.
278 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
279 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
281 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
284 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
285 function for BDB 4.3.
287 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
289 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
290 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
293 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
294 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
295 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
296 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
297 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
298 formatting function string_vformat().
300 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
301 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
302 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
303 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
304 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
305 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
306 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
307 falls back to the previous guessing code."
309 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
310 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
313 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
314 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
316 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
317 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
318 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
319 test. It is now used for both.
321 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
322 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
323 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
324 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
325 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
326 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
328 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
329 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
330 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
333 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
334 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
335 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
337 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
338 experimental DomainKeys support:
340 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
341 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
342 the control was given.
344 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
346 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
348 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
350 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
351 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
352 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
355 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
356 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
357 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
358 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
359 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
360 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
363 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
364 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
365 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
366 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
367 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
368 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
370 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
371 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
372 do -d+all out of habit.
374 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
375 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
378 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
379 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
380 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
381 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
382 record types that Exim uses.
384 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
385 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
386 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
387 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
388 non-existent file that was broken.
390 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
391 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
393 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
394 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
395 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
397 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
399 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
400 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
401 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
402 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
403 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
406 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
407 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
408 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
409 at a slight CPU cost.
411 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
412 as requested by Marc Sherman.
414 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
417 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
419 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
420 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
426 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
427 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
429 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
431 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
433 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
434 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
436 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
437 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
438 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
439 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
440 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
441 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
444 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
445 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
446 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
447 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
450 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
451 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
452 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
453 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
454 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
455 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
456 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
459 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
460 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
462 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
463 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
464 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
465 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
466 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
467 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
469 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
470 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
471 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
472 SMTP commands that take arguments.
474 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
477 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
478 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
480 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
481 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
482 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
483 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
486 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
488 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
489 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
491 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
492 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
493 to what was transported.)
495 TF/01 Added $received_time.
497 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
498 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
499 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
500 spamd_address settings.
502 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
503 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
504 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
505 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
506 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
508 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
510 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
511 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
512 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
513 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
514 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
516 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
517 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
519 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
520 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
521 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
522 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
523 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
524 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
525 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
528 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
529 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
530 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
531 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
532 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
533 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
534 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
537 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
539 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
540 driver and ACL definitions.
542 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
543 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
545 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
546 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
547 understands it better than I do:
549 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
550 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
552 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
553 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
554 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
555 => three warnings about OTP not working
556 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
558 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
559 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
560 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
561 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
563 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
564 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
566 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
567 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
568 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
570 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
571 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
574 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
575 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
578 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
579 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
580 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
582 warn !verify = sender
583 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
585 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
586 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
588 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
590 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
591 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
593 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
594 nomenclature these days.)
596 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
597 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
599 PH/30 In these circumstances:
600 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
601 . First host does not offer TLS;
602 . First host accepts first address;
603 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
604 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
605 . Second host accepts second address.
606 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
607 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
610 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
611 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
612 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
613 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
614 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
616 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
617 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
619 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
620 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
622 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
623 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
624 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
626 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
627 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
630 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
632 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
633 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
634 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
635 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
636 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
637 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
638 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
640 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
641 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
642 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
643 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
644 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
646 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
647 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
650 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
651 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
652 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
653 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
654 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
655 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
657 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
659 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
660 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
661 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
662 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
663 printable escape sequences.
665 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
666 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
669 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
670 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
673 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
674 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
675 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
676 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
677 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
679 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
680 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
681 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
683 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
685 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
686 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
689 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
690 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
691 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
692 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
693 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
694 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
695 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
696 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
697 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
700 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
701 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
702 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
703 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
707 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
708 ----------------------------------------
710 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
711 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
712 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
713 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
714 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
715 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
718 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
719 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
720 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
721 historical information.
727 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
729 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
730 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
732 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
733 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
736 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
737 filter fails to execute.
739 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
740 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
741 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
742 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
743 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
745 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
747 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
748 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
749 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
750 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
752 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
753 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
754 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
755 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
756 control that does not make sense is encountered.
758 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
760 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
762 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
763 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
764 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
765 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
767 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
768 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
771 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
772 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
774 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
776 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
779 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
780 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
782 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
783 the spool by the -Mrm option.
785 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
786 information about exactly what failed.
788 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
790 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
791 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
792 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
794 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
795 It is now set to "smtps".
797 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
800 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
801 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
802 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
803 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
806 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
807 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
808 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
810 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
811 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
812 wake it up if nothing else does.
814 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
815 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
816 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
819 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
820 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
822 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
824 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
825 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
826 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
827 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
828 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
829 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
830 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
831 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
833 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
834 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
837 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
838 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
839 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
840 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
842 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
843 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
844 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
845 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
846 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
849 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
850 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
851 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
852 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
854 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
855 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
858 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
859 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
860 $sender_host_address.
862 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
863 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
864 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
865 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
866 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
869 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
871 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
872 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
874 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
875 just the host names, not the priorities.
877 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
878 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
879 controlled by a keyword.
881 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
882 multiple records are returned.
884 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
885 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
888 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
890 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
891 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
893 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
894 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
895 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
897 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
899 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
901 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
903 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
904 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
905 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
906 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
907 because the tests only now provoked it.
909 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
910 (this can affect the format of dates).
912 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
913 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
914 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
915 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
917 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
919 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
920 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
921 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
922 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
924 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
925 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
926 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
928 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
931 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
932 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
933 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
934 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
935 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
936 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
939 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
940 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
941 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
944 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
945 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
946 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
948 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
949 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
950 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
951 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
952 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
953 so I produce this patch..."
955 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
956 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
959 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
960 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
961 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
962 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
965 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
967 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
968 long debug lines gets shown.
970 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
971 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
973 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
975 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
976 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
977 of $primary_hostname.
979 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
980 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
981 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
982 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
983 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
984 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
985 by change 4.50/55 above.
987 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
988 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
989 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
990 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
991 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
995 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
996 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
997 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1000 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1001 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1003 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1004 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1005 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1006 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1007 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1009 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1010 This has been fixed.
1012 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1013 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1014 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1015 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1018 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1020 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1021 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1022 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1023 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1025 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1026 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1028 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1029 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1030 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1032 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1033 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1034 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1037 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1038 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1039 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1041 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1042 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1043 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1044 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1046 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1047 during host lookups.
1049 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1050 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1052 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1054 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1055 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1056 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1057 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1058 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1061 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1062 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1064 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1065 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1066 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1068 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1070 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1071 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1072 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1073 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1074 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1075 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1078 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1079 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1080 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1081 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1082 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1084 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1087 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1089 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1090 "vacation" handling.
1092 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1093 OS variants using glibc.
1095 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1098 ----------------------------------------------------
1099 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1100 ----------------------------------------------------
1106 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1107 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1110 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1111 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1114 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1115 filter fails to execute.
1117 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1118 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1119 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1120 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1121 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1123 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1124 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1125 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1126 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1128 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1129 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1130 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1131 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1132 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1134 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1136 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1137 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1138 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1139 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1141 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1142 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1143 sender verification.
1145 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1146 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1148 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1149 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1151 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1152 ignore_target_hosts.
1154 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1155 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1156 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1157 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1160 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1161 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1162 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1164 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1165 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1166 wake it up if nothing else does.
1168 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1169 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1170 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1173 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1174 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1176 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1178 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1179 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1182 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1183 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1186 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1187 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1188 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1189 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1190 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1193 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1194 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1197 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1198 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1199 $sender_host_address.
1201 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1203 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1204 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1205 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1207 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1210 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1211 (this can affect the format of dates).
1213 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1214 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1215 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1216 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1218 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1219 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1220 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1222 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1223 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1224 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1225 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1227 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1228 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1229 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1231 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1234 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1235 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1236 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1237 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1238 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1239 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1242 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1243 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1244 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1245 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1248 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1249 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1250 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1251 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1252 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1253 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1254 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1256 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1257 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1258 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1259 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1260 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1261 running as the user.
1264 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1265 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1266 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1269 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1270 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1271 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1272 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1273 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1275 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1276 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1277 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1278 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1281 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1282 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1283 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1284 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1285 because the tests only now provoked it.
1291 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1292 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1293 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1294 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1295 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1296 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1297 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1299 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1300 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1303 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1305 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1307 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1308 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1311 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1312 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1313 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1314 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1315 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1317 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1318 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1320 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1322 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1324 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1327 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1328 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1330 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1331 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1332 affecting debugging statements).
1334 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1336 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1337 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1338 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1339 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1340 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1341 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1342 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1343 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1344 after the received time, and all would be well.
1346 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1347 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1348 condition in an expansion string.
1350 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1352 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1353 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1354 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1355 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1356 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1357 job under whatever limits there are.
1359 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1361 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1364 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1365 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1366 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1367 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1370 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1371 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1372 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1373 binary data in such strings.
1375 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1377 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1378 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1379 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1380 failure, which is pointless.
1382 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1384 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1386 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1387 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1388 Sender: header lines.
1390 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1391 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1392 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1394 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1395 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1396 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1397 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1398 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1401 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1402 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1403 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1404 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1405 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1407 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1408 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1409 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1412 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1413 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1415 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1416 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1418 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1420 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1422 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1424 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1427 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1429 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1431 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1432 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1433 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1434 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1436 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1437 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1443 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1444 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1445 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1447 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1448 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1449 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1450 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1451 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1452 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1454 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1455 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1456 verification failure".
1458 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1459 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1460 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1461 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1463 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1464 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1465 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1466 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1467 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1468 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1469 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1470 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1471 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1472 treated as a timeout.
1474 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1475 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1476 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1477 not set for Exim filters).
1479 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1480 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1481 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1483 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1485 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1486 try to make them clearer.
1488 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1489 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1491 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1493 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1495 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1496 only the Cygwin environment.
1498 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1499 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1500 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1501 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1502 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1504 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1505 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1506 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1507 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1508 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1509 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1510 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1512 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1513 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1515 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1517 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1518 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1519 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1521 To: susanne@some.where
1523 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1524 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1525 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1526 of addresses in From: header lines).
1528 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1529 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1530 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1532 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1533 treated as non-personal.
1535 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1536 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1538 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1540 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1542 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1543 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1544 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1546 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1547 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1549 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1550 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1551 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1552 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1553 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1554 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1556 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1557 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1558 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1559 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1560 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1561 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1562 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1563 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1565 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1567 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1568 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1570 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1571 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1572 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1574 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1575 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1577 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1578 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1579 rather than long int.
1581 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1583 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1589 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1590 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1591 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1592 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1593 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1594 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1600 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1601 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1603 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1604 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1605 socklen_t is defined.
1607 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1610 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1613 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1614 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1615 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1616 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1617 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1619 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1620 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1621 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1622 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1624 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1625 of flapping under certain conditions.
1627 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1628 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1629 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1631 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1633 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1635 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1636 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1637 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1638 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1640 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1641 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1642 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1643 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1644 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1645 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1646 preserved with the message after it was received.
1648 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1649 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1650 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1651 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1652 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1653 test suite worked just fine.
1655 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1656 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1657 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1659 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1660 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1663 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1664 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1665 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1666 does not fully solve it.
1668 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1669 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1670 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1671 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1672 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1674 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1675 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1676 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1678 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1679 string, for example:
1681 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1683 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1684 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1685 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1686 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1687 the routers could not see them.
1689 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1690 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1692 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1693 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1696 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1697 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1698 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1699 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1700 that needed quoting.
1702 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1703 was not being matched caselessly.
1705 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1708 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1709 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1710 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1711 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1712 when use_sender is false.
1714 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1716 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1718 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1720 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1721 the configuration file.
1723 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1724 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1726 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1728 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1729 bytes in the message body.
1731 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1732 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1735 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1737 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1739 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1740 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1741 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1742 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1749 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1750 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1752 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1753 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1754 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1755 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1756 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1758 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1759 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1761 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1762 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1763 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1765 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1766 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1767 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1769 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1772 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1773 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1774 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1775 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1776 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1777 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1778 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1784 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1785 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1786 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1787 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1788 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1789 default (and expected) setting.
1791 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1792 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1793 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1794 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1796 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1797 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1799 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1802 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1803 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1804 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1805 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1806 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1807 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1809 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1810 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1811 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1813 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1814 part (NOT match_host).
1816 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1818 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1819 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1820 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1821 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1822 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1823 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1824 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1825 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1826 the same named file.
1828 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1829 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1832 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1833 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1834 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1835 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1838 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1839 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1840 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1842 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1844 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1846 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1848 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1849 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1851 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1852 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1853 before starting the TLS session.
1855 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1857 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1858 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1860 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1861 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1862 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1863 colon in the middle).
1869 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1870 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1871 multiple configurations are in use.
1873 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1874 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1875 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1876 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1877 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1878 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1880 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1881 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1883 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1884 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1885 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1887 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1888 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1891 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1892 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1894 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1896 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1897 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1899 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1907 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1908 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1909 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1910 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1911 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1913 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1916 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1917 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1918 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1919 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1920 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1921 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1923 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1924 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1925 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1926 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1927 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1928 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1929 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1932 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1933 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1934 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1935 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1936 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1938 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1940 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1941 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1942 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1944 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1946 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1947 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1948 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1951 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1952 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1954 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1955 Three changes have been made:
1957 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1958 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1959 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1960 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1961 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1963 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1966 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1967 the modified behaviour.
1973 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1976 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1977 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1979 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1980 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1981 try to track down a specific problem.
1983 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1984 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1985 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1987 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1990 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1991 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1992 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1993 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1994 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1995 some earlier ones do not.
1997 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1999 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2000 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2001 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2002 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2003 address literals are enabled, of course).
2005 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2007 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2008 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2009 by a command such as
2013 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2015 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2017 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2018 remained set. It is now erased.
2020 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2021 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2023 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2024 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2025 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2026 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2027 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2028 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2029 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2030 appropriate error code.
2032 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2033 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2034 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2035 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2036 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2037 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2039 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2040 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2041 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2043 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2044 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2045 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2046 terminate the header.
2048 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2049 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2050 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2052 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2053 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2054 (4.30/29). In particular:
2056 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2059 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2060 to write a maildirsize file.
2062 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2063 the transport, the new value overrides.
2065 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2068 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2069 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2070 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2073 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2074 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2075 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2078 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2079 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2080 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2082 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2083 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2086 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2087 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2088 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2090 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2092 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2094 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2096 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2097 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2100 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2101 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2102 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2103 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2104 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2105 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2106 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2109 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2110 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2111 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2112 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2113 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2116 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2117 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2118 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2119 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2120 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2121 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2122 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2123 cached value only when the same options are set.
2125 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2127 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2128 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2129 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2130 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2131 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2133 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2134 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2135 it is clearly obsolete.
2137 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2140 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2141 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2142 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2145 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2146 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2147 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2148 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2149 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2151 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2152 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2153 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2154 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2156 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2158 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2160 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2161 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2164 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2165 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2166 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2167 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2168 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2169 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2172 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2173 with the -f command-line option.
2175 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2176 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2177 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2178 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2179 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2180 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2182 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2183 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2186 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2187 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2188 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2189 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2190 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2191 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2192 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2193 buffer is too small.
2195 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2196 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2198 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2199 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2200 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2201 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2202 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2203 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2204 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2205 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2206 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2208 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2209 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2210 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2212 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2213 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2216 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2217 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2218 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2219 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2220 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2222 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2223 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2224 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2225 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2228 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2230 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2232 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2233 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2235 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2236 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2237 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2239 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2240 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2241 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2242 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2243 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2245 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2246 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2247 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2248 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2249 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2250 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2251 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2253 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2254 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2255 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2256 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2257 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2258 the test of how many are available.
2260 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2261 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2262 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2263 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2264 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2265 new message is started.
2267 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2268 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2270 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2271 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2273 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2274 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2275 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2278 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2279 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2280 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2281 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2282 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2283 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2284 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2286 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2287 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2288 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2289 interpreted as octal.
2291 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2294 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2295 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2296 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2297 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2298 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2299 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2301 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2302 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2303 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2304 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2306 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2307 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2308 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2309 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2311 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2312 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2315 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2316 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2318 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2320 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2321 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2322 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2323 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2325 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2326 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2327 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2328 supplied", which is not helpful.
2330 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2331 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2332 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2334 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2335 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2336 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2337 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2338 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2339 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2340 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2341 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2343 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2344 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2345 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2346 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2347 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2349 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2350 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2351 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2352 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2353 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2354 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2356 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2357 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2358 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2360 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2362 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2363 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2364 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2367 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2369 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2370 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2371 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2372 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2373 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2374 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2375 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2376 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2378 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2379 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2380 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2381 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2382 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2384 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2387 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2388 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2389 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2390 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2391 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2392 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2393 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2394 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2395 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2401 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2402 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2403 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2405 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2408 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2409 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2410 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2412 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2413 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2414 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2415 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2416 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2417 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2419 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2420 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2421 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2422 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2423 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2424 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2425 the Exim test suite.
2427 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2428 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2429 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2430 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2432 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2433 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2434 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2435 specify it in this variable.
2437 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2438 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2439 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2440 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2442 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2443 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2444 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2445 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2447 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2448 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2449 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2450 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2451 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2453 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2455 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2458 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2459 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2460 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2461 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2462 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2464 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2465 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2467 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2468 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2469 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2470 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2471 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2473 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2474 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2476 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2477 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2478 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2480 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2481 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2483 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2484 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2486 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2487 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2488 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2490 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2491 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2493 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2494 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2495 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2496 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2498 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2500 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2501 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2502 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2503 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2505 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2507 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2508 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2510 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2512 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2513 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2514 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2515 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2516 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2517 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2519 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2521 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2522 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2525 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2527 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2528 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2530 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2531 550 Sender verify failed
2533 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2534 the final line of the response.
2536 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2537 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2538 all other user lookups.
2540 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2543 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2544 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2545 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2546 result into an int without checking.
2548 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2549 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2550 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2552 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2553 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2554 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2555 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2557 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2560 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2561 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2563 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2564 to the empty sender.
2566 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2567 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2568 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2569 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2570 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2571 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2572 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2575 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2576 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2577 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2578 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2581 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2582 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2584 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2587 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2588 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2590 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2592 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2593 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2596 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2597 as soon as it is encountered.
2599 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2601 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2604 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2605 recognizes a tab character.
2607 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2608 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2609 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2610 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2612 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2614 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2617 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2619 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2621 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2622 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2625 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2626 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2627 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2628 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2629 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2631 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2632 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2634 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2635 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2636 list (.included file names were always shown).
2638 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2639 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2640 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2643 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2644 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2646 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2648 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2650 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2652 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2653 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2654 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2655 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2656 failures to open the logs.
2658 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2659 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2660 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2661 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2662 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2663 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2664 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2670 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2671 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2672 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2675 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2676 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2677 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2679 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2680 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2681 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2683 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2684 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2685 causing some misleading effects.
2687 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2688 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2689 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2691 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2692 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2693 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2694 queue-runner function directly.
2700 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2703 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2704 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2705 was always written to the default place.
2707 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2708 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2709 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2711 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2713 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2715 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2716 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2717 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2719 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2720 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2723 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2724 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2725 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2727 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2728 command line option is disabled.
2730 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2731 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2733 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2735 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2737 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2738 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2740 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2742 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2743 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2744 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2745 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2746 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2747 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2749 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2750 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2753 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2754 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2756 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2757 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2759 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2760 received was valid base64.
2762 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2763 name of the variable that was being set.
2765 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2767 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2768 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2769 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2770 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2771 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2772 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2774 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2776 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2777 nor realm was specified.
2779 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2780 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2781 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2782 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2784 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2785 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2786 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2788 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2789 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2790 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2792 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2793 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2794 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2795 some systems use these upper case variants.
2797 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2798 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2799 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2800 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2802 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2804 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2805 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2807 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2808 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2811 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2813 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2814 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2815 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2816 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2818 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2821 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2822 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2823 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2825 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2826 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2828 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2829 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2830 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2831 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2833 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2834 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2835 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2837 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2839 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2840 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2841 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2842 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2845 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2846 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2847 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2849 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2851 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2852 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2854 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2855 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2857 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2858 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2859 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2860 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2861 when emails are that large.
2868 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2869 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2871 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2872 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2873 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2875 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2876 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2877 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2879 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2880 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2881 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2882 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2883 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2885 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2886 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2887 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2888 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2889 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2892 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2893 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2894 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2895 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2896 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2897 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2898 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2899 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2900 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2901 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2902 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2903 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2904 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2905 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2907 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2908 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2911 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2912 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2913 error should be diagnosed.
2915 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2916 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2917 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2918 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2919 appeared instead of "NULL".
2921 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2922 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2923 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2924 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2925 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2926 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2929 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2930 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2931 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2937 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2938 or receiver verification errors.
2940 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2943 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2944 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2945 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2946 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2948 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2949 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2950 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2951 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2952 shouldn't happen again.
2954 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2955 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2956 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2958 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2959 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2961 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2963 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2964 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2966 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2967 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2970 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2971 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2972 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2974 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2975 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2976 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2977 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2979 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2980 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2981 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2982 to define what should happen).
2984 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2985 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2986 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2988 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2990 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2992 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2993 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2995 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2996 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2997 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2998 structure in all cases.
3000 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3001 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3002 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3003 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3005 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3006 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3009 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3010 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3012 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3013 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3015 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3016 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3017 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3019 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3020 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3021 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3023 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3024 the book and for uniformity.
3026 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3028 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3029 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3030 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3031 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3032 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3033 non-existent command as the problem.
3035 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3036 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3037 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3039 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3041 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3042 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3043 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3045 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3046 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3047 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3048 timestamps using strftime().
3050 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3051 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3053 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3054 transport-time rewrites.
3056 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3057 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3058 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3059 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3061 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3062 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3064 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3065 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3066 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3067 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3070 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3071 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3072 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3073 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3074 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3075 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3076 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3078 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3079 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3080 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3081 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3082 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3084 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3085 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3086 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3087 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3088 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3089 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3090 remaining text gets split now.
3092 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3093 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3094 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3095 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3097 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3098 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3099 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3100 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3103 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3104 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3105 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3106 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3107 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3108 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3109 passed through if needed.
3111 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3112 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3113 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3114 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3115 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3116 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3118 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3119 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3120 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3121 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3122 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3124 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3125 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3126 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3127 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3128 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3130 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3131 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3134 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3135 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3136 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3137 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3138 mayhem of various kinds.
3140 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3141 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3142 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3143 the right test for positive values.
3145 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3146 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3147 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3148 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3149 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3150 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3151 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3152 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3153 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3154 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3157 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3160 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3161 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3164 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3165 the existing equality matching.
3167 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3168 dealing with inode numbers.
3170 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3171 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3172 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3174 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3175 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3176 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3177 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3180 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3181 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3182 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3183 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3184 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3185 relay addresses has also been removed.
3187 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3189 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3190 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3191 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3193 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3194 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3195 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3196 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3197 processing applies to CR:
3199 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3200 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3202 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3203 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3204 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3205 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3207 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3208 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3209 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3211 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3212 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3213 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3214 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3215 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3216 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3219 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3222 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3223 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3224 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3225 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3228 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3230 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3232 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3234 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3235 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3236 not considered personal.
3238 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3240 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3242 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3244 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3245 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3246 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3247 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3248 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3249 header lines, and spool format errors.
3251 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3252 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3253 for more flexibility.
3255 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3256 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3257 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3259 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3262 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3263 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3264 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3265 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3266 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3267 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3268 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3269 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3270 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3272 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3273 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3274 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3275 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3276 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3277 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3278 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3280 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3281 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3282 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3284 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3285 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3286 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3287 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3288 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3289 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3290 instead of killing the process with assert().
3292 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3293 than Unicode encoding.
3295 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3296 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3297 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3298 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3300 77. Added process_log_path.
3302 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3303 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3305 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3306 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3308 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3309 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3310 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3312 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3313 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3314 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3315 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3316 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3319 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3320 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3323 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3324 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3325 they will be used during message reception.
3331 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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