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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 Exim version 4.44
8 -----------------
9
10 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
11
12 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
13 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
14
15 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
16 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
17 place.
18
19 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
20 filter fails to execute.
21
22 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
23 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
24 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
25 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
26 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
27
28 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
29
30 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
31 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
32 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
33 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
34
35 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
36 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
37 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
38 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
39 control that does not make sense is encountered.
40
41 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
42
43 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
44
45 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
46 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
47 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
48 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
49
50 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
51 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
52 sender verification.
53
54 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
55 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
56
57 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
58
59 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
60 connection timeout.
61
62 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
63 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
64
65 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
66 the spool by the -Mrm option.
67
68 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
69 information about exactly what failed.
70
71 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
72
73 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
74 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
75 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
76
77 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
78 It is now set to "smtps".
79
80 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
81 ignore_target_hosts.
82
83 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
84 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
85 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
86 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
87 "[x.x.x.x]".
88
89 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
90 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
91 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
92
93 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
94 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
95 wake it up if nothing else does.
96
97 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
98 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
99 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
100 end up negative.
101
102 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
103 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
104
105 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
106
107 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
108 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
109 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
110 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
111 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
112 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
113 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
114 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
115
116 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
117 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
118 than one IP address.
119
120 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
121 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
122 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
123 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
124
125 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
126 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
127 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
128 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
129 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
130 1024 to 2048 bytes.
131
132 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
133 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
134 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
135 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
136
137 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
138 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
139 respected.
140
141 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
142 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
143 $sender_host_address.
144
145 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
146 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
147 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
148 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
149 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
150 very small.
151
152 37. The dnsdb lookup has a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree
153 until it finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
154
155
156 Exim version 4.43
157 -----------------
158
159 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
160 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
161 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
162 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
163 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
164 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
165 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
166
167 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
168 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
169 the delivery.
170
171 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
172
173 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
174
175 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
176 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
177 to local_scan().
178
179 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
180 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
181 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
182 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
183 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
184
185 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
186 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
187
188 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
189
190 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
191
192 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
193 header_sender only.
194
195 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
196 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
197
198 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
199 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
200 affecting debugging statements).
201
202 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
203
204 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
205 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
206 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
207 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
208 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
209 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
210 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
211 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
212 after the received time, and all would be well.
213
214 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
215 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
216 condition in an expansion string.
217
218 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
219
220 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
221 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
222 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
223 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
224 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
225 job under whatever limits there are.
226
227 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
228
229 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
230 space).
231
232 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
233 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
234 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
235 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
236 return path is set.
237
238 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
239 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
240 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
241 binary data in such strings.
242
243 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
244
245 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
246 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
247 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
248 failure, which is pointless.
249
250 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
251
252 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
253
254 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
255 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
256 Sender: header lines.
257
258 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
259 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
260 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
261
262 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
263 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
264 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
265 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
266 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
267 happens.
268
269 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
270 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
271 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
272 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
273 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
274
275 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
276 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
277 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
278 1024.
279
280 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
281 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
282
283 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
284 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
285
286 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
287
288 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
289
290 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
291
292 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
293 syntax error.
294
295 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
296
297 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
298
299 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
300 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
301 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
302 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
303
304 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
305 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
306
307
308 Exim version 4.42
309 -----------------
310
311 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
312 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
313 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
314 it was not quoted.
315 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
316 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
317 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
318 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
319 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
320 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
321
322 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
323 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
324 verification failure".
325
326 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
327 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
328 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
329 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
330
331 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
332 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
333 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
334 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
335 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
336 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
337 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
338 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
339 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
340 treated as a timeout.
341
342 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
343 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
344 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
345 not set for Exim filters).
346
347 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
348 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
349 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
350
351 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
352
353 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
354 try to make them clearer.
355
356 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
357 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
358
359 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
360
361 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
362
363 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
364 only the Cygwin environment.
365
366 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
367 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
368 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
369 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
370 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
371
372 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
373 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
374 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
375 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
376 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
377 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
378 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
379
380 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
381 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
382
383 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
384
385 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
386 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
387 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
388
389 To: susanne@some.where
390
391 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
392 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
393 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
394 of addresses in From: header lines).
395
396 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
397 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
398 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
399
400 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
401 treated as non-personal.
402
403 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
404 because it now seems ill-conceived.
405
406 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
407
408 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
409
410 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
411 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
412 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
413
414 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
415 ACL and the local_scan() function.
416
417 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
418 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
419 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
420 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
421 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
422 (I found it when inspecting the code).
423
424 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
425 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
426 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
427 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
428 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
429 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
430 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
431 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
432
433 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
434
435 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
436 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
437
438 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
439 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
440 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
441
442 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
443 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
444
445 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
446 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
447 rather than long int.
448
449 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
450
451 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
452
453
454 Exim version 4.41
455 -----------------
456
457 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
458 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
459 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
460 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
461 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
462 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
463
464
465 Exim version 4.40
466 -----------------
467
468 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
469 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
470
471 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
472 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
473 socklen_t is defined.
474
475 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
476 always exist.
477
478 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
479 configured.
480
481 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
482 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
483 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
484 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
485 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
486
487 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
488 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
489 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
490 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
491
492 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
493 of flapping under certain conditions.
494
495 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
496 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
497 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
498
499 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
500
501 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
502
503 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
504 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
505 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
506 the duration of the SMTP connection.
507
508 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
509 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
510 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
511 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
512 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
513 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
514 preserved with the message after it was received.
515
516 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
517 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
518 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
519 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
520 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
521 test suite worked just fine.
522
523 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
524 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
525 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
526
527 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
528 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
529 string.
530
531 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
532 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
533 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
534 does not fully solve it.
535
536 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
537 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
538 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
539 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
540 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
541
542 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
543 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
544 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
545
546 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
547 string, for example:
548
549 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
550
551 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
552 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
553 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
554 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
555 the routers could not see them.
556
557 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
558 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
559
560 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
561 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
562 output).
563
564 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
565 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
566 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
567 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
568 that needed quoting.
569
570 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
571 was not being matched caselessly.
572
573 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
574 backslashes.
575
576 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
577 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
578 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
579 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
580 when use_sender is false.
581
582 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
583
584 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
585
586 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
587
588 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
589 the configuration file.
590
591 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
592 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
593
594 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
595
596 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
597 bytes in the message body.
598
599 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
600 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
601 delivery.
602
603 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
604
605 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
606
607 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
608 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
609 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
610 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
611 another IP address.
612
613
614 Exim version 4.34
615 -----------------
616
617 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
618 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
619
620 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
621 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
622 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
623 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
624 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
625
626 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
627 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
628
629 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
630 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
631 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
632
633 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
634 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
635 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
636
637 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
638 for routers.
639
640 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
641 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
642 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
643 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
644 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
645 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
646 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
647
648
649 Exim version 4.33
650 -----------------
651
652 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
653 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
654 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
655 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
656 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
657 default (and expected) setting.
658
659 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
660 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
661 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
662 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
663
664 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
665 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
666
667 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
668 in domain lists.
669
670 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
671 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
672 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
673 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
674 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
675 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
676
677 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
678 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
679 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
680
681 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
682 part (NOT match_host).
683
684 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
685
686 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
687 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
688 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
689 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
690 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
691 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
692 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
693 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
694 the same named file.
695
696 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
697 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
698 when Exim is built.
699
700 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
701 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
702 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
703 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
704 a host name.
705
706 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
707 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
708 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
709
710 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
711
712 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
713
714 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
715
716 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
717 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
718
719 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
720 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
721 before starting the TLS session.
722
723 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
724
725 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
726 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
727
728 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
729 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
730 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
731 colon in the middle).
732
733
734 Exim version 4.32
735 -----------------
736
737 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
738 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
739 multiple configurations are in use.
740
741 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
742 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
743 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
744 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
745 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
746 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
747
748 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
749 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
750
751 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
752 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
753 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
754
755 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
756 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
757 occurs.
758
759 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
760 that used bh_ and bheader_.
761
762 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
763
764 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
765 allowing one more file than it should have been.
766
767 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
768
769 -prval:sval
770
771 is equivalent to
772
773 -oMr rval -oMs sval
774
775 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
776 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
777 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
778 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
779 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
780
781 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
782 Exim's behaviour:
783
784 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
785 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
786 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
787 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
788 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
789 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
790
791 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
792 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
793 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
794 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
795 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
796 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
797 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
798 string.
799
800 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
801 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
802 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
803 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
804 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
805
806 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
807
808 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
809 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
810 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
811
812 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
813
814 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
815 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
816 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
817 information.
818
819 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
820 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
821
822 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
823 Three changes have been made:
824
825 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
826 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
827 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
828 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
829 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
830
831 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
832 been restored.
833
834 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
835 the modified behaviour.
836
837
838 Exim version 4.31
839 -----------------
840
841 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
842 Larry Rosenman.
843
844 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
845 indeed breaks things for older releases.
846
847 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
848 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
849 try to track down a specific problem.
850
851 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
852 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
853 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
854
855 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
856 warning.
857
858 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
859 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
860 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
861 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
862 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
863 some earlier ones do not.
864
865 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
866
867 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
868 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
869 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
870 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
871 address literals are enabled, of course).
872
873 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
874
875 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
876 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
877 by a command such as
878
879 exim -f "" ...
880
881 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
882
883 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
884
885 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
886 remained set. It is now erased.
887
888 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
889 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
890
891 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
892 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
893 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
894 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
895 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
896 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
897 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
898 appropriate error code.
899
900 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
901 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
902 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
903 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
904 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
905 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
906
907 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
908 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
909 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
910
911 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
912 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
913 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
914 terminate the header.
915
916 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
917 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
918 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
919
920 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
921 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
922 (4.30/29). In particular:
923
924 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
925 imposed.
926
927 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
928 to write a maildirsize file.
929
930 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
931 the transport, the new value overrides.
932
933 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
934 count.
935
936 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
937 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
938 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
939 space or a tab.
940
941 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
942 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
943 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
944 the fallback hosts.
945
946 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
947 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
948 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
949
950 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
951 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
952 using a union.
953
954 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
955 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
956 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
957
958 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
959
960 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
961
962 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
963
964 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
965 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
966 become corrupted.
967
968 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
969 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
970 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
971 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
972 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
973 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
974 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
975 too great.
976
977 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
978 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
979 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
980 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
981 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
982 incorrectly.
983
984 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
985 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
986 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
987 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
988 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
989 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
990 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
991 cached value only when the same options are set.
992
993 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
994
995 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
996 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
997 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
998 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
999 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1000
1001 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1002 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1003 it is clearly obsolete.
1004
1005 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1006 transport.
1007
1008 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1009 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1010 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1011 times.
1012
1013 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1014 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1015 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1016 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1017 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1018
1019 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1020 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1021 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1022 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1023
1024 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1025
1026 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1027
1028 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1029 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1030 2^31.
1031
1032 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1033 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1034 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1035 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1036 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1037 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1038 $localpart_data.
1039
1040 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1041 with the -f command-line option.
1042
1043 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1044 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1045 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1046 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1047 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1048 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1049
1050 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1051 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1052 line.
1053
1054 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1055 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1056 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1057 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1058 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1059 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1060 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1061 buffer is too small.
1062
1063 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1064 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1065
1066 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1067 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1068 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1069 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1070 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1071 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1072 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1073 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1074 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1075
1076 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1077 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1078 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1079
1080 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1081 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1082 ACL").
1083
1084 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1085 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1086 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1087 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1088 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1089
1090 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1091 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1092 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1093 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1094 is set.
1095
1096 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1097
1098 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1099
1100 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1101 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1102
1103 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1104 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1105 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1106
1107 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1108 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1109 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1110 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1111 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1112
1113 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1114 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1115 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1116 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1117 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1118 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1119 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1120
1121 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1122 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1123 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1124 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1125 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1126 the test of how many are available.
1127
1128 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1129 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1130 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1131 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1132 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1133 new message is started.
1134
1135 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1136 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1137
1138 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1139 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1140
1141 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1142 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1143 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1144 is no long logged.
1145
1146 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1147 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1148 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1149 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1150 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1151 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1152 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1153
1154 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1155 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1156 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1157 interpreted as octal.
1158
1159 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1160 setting.
1161
1162 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1163 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1164 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1165 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1166 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1167 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1168
1169 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1170 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1171 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1172 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1173
1174 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1175 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1176 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1177 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1178
1179 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1180 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1181 is a bug fix.
1182
1183 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1184 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1185
1186 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1187
1188 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1189 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1190 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1191 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1192
1193 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1194 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1195 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1196 supplied", which is not helpful.
1197
1198 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1199 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1200 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1201
1202 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1203 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1204 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1205 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1206 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1207 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1208 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1209 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1210
1211 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1212 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1213 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1214 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1215 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1216
1217 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1218 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1219 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1220 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1221 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1222 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1223
1224 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1225 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1226 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1227
1228 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
1229
1230 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1231 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1232 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1233 variables.
1234
1235 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1236
1237 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1238 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1239 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1240 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1241 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1242 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1243 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1244 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1245
1246 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1247 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1248 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1249 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1250 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1251
1252 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1253 Haardt.
1254
1255 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1256 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1257 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1258 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1259 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1260 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1261 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1262 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1263 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1264
1265
1266 Exim version 4.30
1267 -----------------
1268
1269 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1270 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1271 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1272
1273 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1274 fixed.
1275
1276 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1277 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1278 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1279
1280 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1281 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1282 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1283 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1284 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1285 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1286
1287 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1288 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1289 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1290 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1291 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1292 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1293 the Exim test suite.
1294
1295 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1296 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1297 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1298 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1299
1300 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1301 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1302 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1303 specify it in this variable.
1304
1305 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
1306 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
1307 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
1308 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
1309
1310 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
1311 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
1312 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
1313 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
1314
1315 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
1316 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
1317 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
1318 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
1319 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
1320
1321 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
1322
1323 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
1324 they are logged.
1325
1326 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
1327 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
1328 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
1329 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
1330 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
1331
1332 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
1333 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
1334
1335 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
1336 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
1337 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
1338 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
1339 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
1340
1341 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
1342 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
1343
1344 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
1345 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1346 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
1347
1348 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
1349 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
1350
1351 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
1352 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
1353
1354 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
1355 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
1356 to get rid of the compiler warning.
1357
1358 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
1359 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
1360
1361 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
1362 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
1363 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
1364 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
1365
1366 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
1367
1368 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
1369 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
1370 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
1371 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
1372
1373 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
1374
1375 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
1376 line; previously there was no indication of these.
1377
1378 25. Added .include_if_exists.
1379
1380 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
1381 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
1382 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
1383 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
1384 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
1385 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
1386
1387 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
1388
1389 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
1390 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
1391 this.
1392
1393 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
1394
1395 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
1396 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
1397
1398 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
1399 550 Sender verify failed
1400
1401 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
1402 the final line of the response.
1403
1404 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
1405 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
1406 all other user lookups.
1407
1408 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
1409 delivery time.
1410
1411 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
1412 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
1413 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
1414 result into an int without checking.
1415
1416 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
1417 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
1418 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
1419
1420 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
1421 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
1422 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
1423 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
1424
1425 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
1426 correctly.
1427
1428 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
1429 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
1430
1431 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
1432 to the empty sender.
1433
1434 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
1435 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
1436 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
1437 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
1438 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
1439 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
1440 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
1441 panic log.
1442
1443 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
1444 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
1445 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
1446 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
1447 used.
1448
1449 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
1450 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
1451
1452 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
1453 timestamps.
1454
1455 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
1456 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
1457
1458 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
1459
1460 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
1461 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
1462 logs.
1463
1464 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
1465 as soon as it is encountered.
1466
1467 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
1468
1469 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
1470 rewritten to "<>".
1471
1472 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
1473 recognizes a tab character.
1474
1475 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
1476 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
1477 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
1478 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
1479
1480 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
1481
1482 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
1483 crash.
1484
1485 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
1486
1487 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
1488
1489 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
1490 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
1491 2822.
1492
1493 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
1494 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
1495 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
1496 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
1497 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
1498
1499 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
1500 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
1501
1502 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
1503 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
1504 list (.included file names were always shown).
1505
1506 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
1507 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
1508 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
1509 root at that time.
1510
1511 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
1512 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
1513
1514 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
1515
1516 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
1517
1518 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
1519
1520 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
1521 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
1522 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
1523 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
1524 failures to open the logs.
1525
1526 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
1527 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
1528 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
1529 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
1530 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
1531 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
1532 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
1533
1534
1535 Exim version 4.24
1536 -----------------
1537
1538 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
1539 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
1540 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
1541 change 4.23/1.
1542
1543 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
1544 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
1545 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
1546
1547 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
1548 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
1549 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
1550
1551 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
1552 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
1553 causing some misleading effects.
1554
1555 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
1556 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
1557 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
1558
1559 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
1560 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
1561 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
1562 queue-runner function directly.
1563
1564
1565 Exim version 4.23
1566 -----------------
1567
1568 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
1569 HEADERS_CHARSET.
1570
1571 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
1572 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
1573 was always written to the default place.
1574
1575 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
1576 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
1577 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
1578
1579 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
1580
1581 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
1582
1583 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
1584 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
1585 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
1586
1587 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
1588 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
1589 must start.
1590
1591 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
1592 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
1593 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
1594
1595 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
1596 command line option is disabled.
1597
1598 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
1599 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
1600
1601 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
1602
1603 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
1604
1605 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
1606 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
1607
1608 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
1609
1610 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
1611 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
1612 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
1613 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
1614 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
1615 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
1616
1617 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
1618 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
1619 timeout.
1620
1621 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
1622 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
1623
1624 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
1625 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
1626
1627 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
1628 received was valid base64.
1629
1630 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
1631 name of the variable that was being set.
1632
1633 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
1634
1635 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
1636 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
1637 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
1638 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
1639 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
1640 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
1641
1642 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
1643
1644 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
1645 nor realm was specified.
1646
1647 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
1648 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
1649 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
1650 errors are given to SMTP connections.
1651
1652 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
1653 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
1654 failing to send a response to QUIT.
1655
1656 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
1657 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
1658 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
1659
1660 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
1661 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
1662 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
1663 some systems use these upper case variants.
1664
1665 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
1666 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
1667 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
1668 socket" when it tried to send the third.
1669
1670 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
1671
1672 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
1673 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
1674
1675 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
1676 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
1677 expansion variable.
1678
1679 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
1680
1681 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
1682 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
1683 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
1684 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
1685
1686 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
1687 using it.
1688
1689 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
1690 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
1691 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
1692
1693 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
1694 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
1695
1696 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
1697 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
1698 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
1699 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
1700
1701 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
1702 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
1703 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
1704
1705 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
1706
1707 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
1708 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
1709 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
1710 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
1711 aborted.
1712
1713 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
1714 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
1715 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
1716
1717 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
1718
1719 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
1720 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
1721
1722 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
1723 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
1724
1725 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
1726 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
1727 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
1728 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
1729 when emails are that large.
1730
1731
1732
1733 Exim version 4.22
1734 -----------------
1735
1736 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
1737 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
1738
1739 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
1740 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
1741 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
1742
1743 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
1744 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
1745 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
1746
1747 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
1748 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
1749 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
1750 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
1751 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
1752
1753 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
1754 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
1755 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
1756 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
1757 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
1758 ever.
1759
1760 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
1761 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
1762 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
1763 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
1764 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
1765 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
1766 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
1767 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
1768 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
1769 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
1770 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
1771 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
1772 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
1773 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
1774
1775 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
1776 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
1777 parameterised it.
1778
1779 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
1780 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
1781 error should be diagnosed.
1782
1783 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
1784 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
1785 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
1786 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
1787 appeared instead of "NULL".
1788
1789 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
1790 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
1791 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
1792 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
1793 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
1794 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
1795 proceeds).
1796
1797 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
1798 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
1799 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
1800
1801
1802 Exim version 4.21
1803 -----------------
1804
1805 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
1806 or receiver verification errors.
1807
1808 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
1809 name.
1810
1811 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
1812 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
1813 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
1814 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
1815
1816 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
1817 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
1818 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
1819 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
1820 shouldn't happen again.
1821
1822 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
1823 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
1824 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
1825
1826 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
1827 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
1828
1829 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
1830
1831 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
1832 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
1833
1834 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
1835 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
1836 RFC.
1837
1838 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
1839 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
1840 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
1841
1842 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
1843 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
1844 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
1845 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
1846
1847 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
1848 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
1849 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
1850 to define what should happen).
1851
1852 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
1853 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
1854 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
1855
1856 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
1857
1858 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
1859
1860 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
1861 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
1862
1863 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
1864 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
1865 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
1866 structure in all cases.
1867
1868 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
1869 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
1870 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
1871 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
1872
1873 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
1874 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
1875 domain name.
1876
1877 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
1878 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
1879
1880 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
1881 MD5 (which is deprecated).
1882
1883 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
1884 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
1885 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
1886
1887 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
1888 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
1889 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
1890
1891 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
1892 the book and for uniformity.
1893
1894 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
1895
1896 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
1897 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
1898 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
1899 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
1900 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
1901 non-existent command as the problem.
1902
1903 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
1904 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
1905 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
1906
1907 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
1908
1909 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
1910 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
1911 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
1912
1913 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
1914 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
1915 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
1916 timestamps using strftime().
1917
1918 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
1919 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
1920
1921 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
1922 transport-time rewrites.
1923
1924 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
1925 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
1926 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
1927 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
1928
1929 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
1930 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
1931
1932 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
1933 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
1934 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
1935 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
1936 comma and a space.
1937
1938 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
1939 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
1940 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
1941 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
1942 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
1943 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
1944 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
1945
1946 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
1947 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
1948 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
1949 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
1950 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
1951
1952 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
1953 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
1954 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
1955 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
1956 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
1957 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
1958 remaining text gets split now.
1959
1960 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
1961 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
1962 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
1963 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
1964
1965 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
1966 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
1967 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
1968 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
1969 $return_path.
1970
1971 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
1972 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
1973 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
1974 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
1975 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
1976 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
1977 passed through if needed.
1978
1979 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
1980 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
1981 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
1982 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
1983 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
1984 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
1985
1986 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
1987 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
1988 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
1989 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
1990 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
1991
1992 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
1993 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
1994 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
1995 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
1996 incorrect size information for certain domains.
1997
1998 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
1999 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2000 noticed.
2001
2002 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2003 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2004 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2005 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2006 mayhem of various kinds.
2007
2008 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2009 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2010 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2011 the right test for positive values.
2012
2013 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2014 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2015 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2016 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2017 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2018 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2019 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2020 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2021 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2022 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2023 envelope.
2024
2025 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2026 module.
2027
2028 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2029 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2030 forbidding it.
2031
2032 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2033 the existing equality matching.
2034
2035 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2036 dealing with inode numbers.
2037
2038 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2039 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2040 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2041
2042 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2043 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2044 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2045 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2046 local_scan().
2047
2048 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2049 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2050 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2051 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2052 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2053 relay addresses has also been removed.
2054
2055 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2056
2057 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2058 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2059 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2060
2061 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2062 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2063 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2064 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2065 processing applies to CR:
2066
2067 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2068 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2069
2070 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2071 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2072 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2073 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2074
2075 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2076 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2077 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2078
2079 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2080 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2081 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2082 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2083 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2084 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2085 arisen.
2086
2087 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2088 program routers.
2089
2090 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2091 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2092 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2093 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2094 adds:
2095
2096 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2097
2098 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2099
2100 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2101
2102 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2103 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2104 not considered personal.
2105
2106 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2107
2108 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2109
2110 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2111
2112 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2113 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2114 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2115 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2116 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2117 header lines, and spool format errors.
2118
2119 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2120 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2121 for more flexibility.
2122
2123 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2124 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2125 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2126
2127 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2128 Sabourenkov.
2129
2130 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2131 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2132 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2133 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2134 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2135 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2136 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2137 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2138 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2139
2140 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2141 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2142 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2143 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2144 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2145 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2146 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2147
2148 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2149 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2150 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2151
2152 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2153 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2154 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2155 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2156 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2157 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2158 instead of killing the process with assert().
2159
2160 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2161 than Unicode encoding.
2162
2163 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2164 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2165 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2166 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2167
2168 77. Added process_log_path.
2169
2170 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2171 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2172
2173 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2174 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2175
2176 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2177 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2178 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2179
2180 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2181 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2182 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2183 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2184 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2185 were applied:
2186
2187 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2188 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2189 as invalid.
2190
2191 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2192 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2193 they will be used during message reception.
2194
2195
2196 Exim version 4.20
2197 -----------------
2198
2199 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
2200
2201 ****