1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.176 2005/06/28 08:49:38 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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10 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
12 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
13 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
14 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
15 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
17 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
19 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
20 can still be requested.
22 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
23 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
24 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
25 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
27 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
28 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
29 circumstances, but probably never did.
31 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
32 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
33 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
36 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
38 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
39 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
41 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
43 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
45 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
46 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
47 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
48 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
49 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
50 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
52 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
53 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
54 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
55 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
56 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
57 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
59 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
60 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
62 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
63 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
65 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
66 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
68 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
70 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
72 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
74 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
76 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
78 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
80 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
82 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
83 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
84 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
86 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
87 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
88 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
89 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
91 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
92 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
93 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
95 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
96 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
97 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
98 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
100 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
101 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
104 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
105 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
106 should work with maildirs and everything.
108 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
109 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
111 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
114 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
115 function for BDB 4.3.
117 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
119 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
120 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
123 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
124 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
125 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
126 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
127 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
128 formatting function string_vformat().
130 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
131 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
132 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
133 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
134 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
135 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
136 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
137 falls back to the previous guessing code."
139 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
140 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
143 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
144 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
146 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
147 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
148 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
149 test. It is now used for both.
151 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
152 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
153 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
154 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
155 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
156 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
158 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
159 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
160 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
163 PH/21 Added another message to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
164 records point to non-existent hosts".
166 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
167 experimental DomainKeys support:
169 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
170 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
171 the control was given.
173 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
175 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
177 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
179 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
180 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
181 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
184 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
185 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
186 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
187 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
188 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
189 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
192 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
193 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
194 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
195 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
196 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
197 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
199 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
200 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
201 do -d+all out of habit.
203 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
204 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
207 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
208 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
209 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
210 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
211 record types that Exim uses.
213 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
214 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
215 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
216 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
217 non-existent file that was broken.
219 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
220 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
222 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
223 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
224 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
226 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
232 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
233 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
235 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
237 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
239 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
240 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
242 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
243 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
244 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
245 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
246 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
247 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
250 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
251 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
252 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
253 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
256 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
257 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
258 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
259 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
260 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
261 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
262 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
265 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
266 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
268 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
269 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
270 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
271 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
272 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
273 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
275 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
276 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
277 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
278 SMTP commands that take arguments.
280 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
283 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
284 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
286 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
287 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
288 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
289 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
292 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
294 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
295 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
297 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
298 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
299 to what was transported.)
301 TF/01 Added $received_time.
303 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
304 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
305 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
306 spamd_address settings.
308 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
309 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
310 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
311 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
312 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
314 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
316 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
317 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
318 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
319 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
320 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
322 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
323 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
325 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
326 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
327 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
328 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
329 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
330 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
331 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
334 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
335 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
336 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
337 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
338 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
339 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
340 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
343 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
345 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
346 driver and ACL definitions.
348 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
349 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
351 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
352 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
353 understands it better than I do:
355 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
356 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
358 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
359 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
360 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
361 => three warnings about OTP not working
362 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
364 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
365 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
366 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
367 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
369 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
370 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
372 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
373 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
374 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
376 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
377 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
380 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
381 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
384 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
385 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
386 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
388 warn !verify = sender
389 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
391 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
392 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
394 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
396 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
397 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
399 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
400 nomenclature these days.)
402 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
403 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
405 PH/30 In these circumstances:
406 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
407 . First host does not offer TLS;
408 . First host accepts first address;
409 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
410 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
411 . Second host accepts second address.
412 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
413 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
416 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
417 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
418 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
419 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
420 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
422 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
423 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
425 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
426 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
428 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
429 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
430 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
432 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
433 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
436 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
438 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
439 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
440 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
441 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
442 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
443 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
444 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
446 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
447 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
448 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
449 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
450 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
452 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
453 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
456 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
457 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
458 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
459 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
460 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
461 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
463 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
465 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
466 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
467 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
468 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
469 printable escape sequences.
471 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
472 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
475 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
476 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
479 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
480 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
481 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
482 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
483 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
485 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
486 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
487 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
489 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
491 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
492 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
495 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
496 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
497 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
498 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
499 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
500 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
501 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
502 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
503 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
506 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
507 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
508 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
509 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
513 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
514 ----------------------------------------
516 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
517 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
518 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
519 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
520 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
521 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
524 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
525 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
526 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
527 historical information.
533 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
535 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
536 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
538 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
539 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
542 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
543 filter fails to execute.
545 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
546 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
547 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
548 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
549 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
551 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
553 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
554 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
555 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
556 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
558 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
559 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
560 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
561 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
562 control that does not make sense is encountered.
564 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
566 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
568 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
569 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
570 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
571 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
573 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
574 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
577 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
578 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
580 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
582 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
585 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
586 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
588 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
589 the spool by the -Mrm option.
591 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
592 information about exactly what failed.
594 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
596 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
597 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
598 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
600 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
601 It is now set to "smtps".
603 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
606 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
607 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
608 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
609 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
612 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
613 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
614 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
616 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
617 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
618 wake it up if nothing else does.
620 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
621 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
622 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
625 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
626 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
628 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
630 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
631 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
632 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
633 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
634 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
635 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
636 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
637 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
639 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
640 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
643 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
644 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
645 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
646 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
648 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
649 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
650 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
651 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
652 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
655 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
656 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
657 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
658 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
660 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
661 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
664 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
665 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
666 $sender_host_address.
668 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
669 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
670 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
671 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
672 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
675 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
677 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
678 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
680 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
681 just the host names, not the priorities.
683 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
684 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
685 controlled by a keyword.
687 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
688 multiple records are returned.
690 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
691 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
694 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
696 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
697 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
699 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
700 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
701 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
703 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
705 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
707 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
709 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
710 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
711 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
712 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
713 because the tests only now provoked it.
715 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
716 (this can affect the format of dates).
718 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
719 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
720 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
721 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
723 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
725 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
726 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
727 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
728 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
730 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
731 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
732 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
734 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
737 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
738 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
739 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
740 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
741 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
742 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
745 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
746 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
747 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
750 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
751 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
752 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
754 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
755 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
756 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
757 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
758 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
759 so I produce this patch..."
761 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
762 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
765 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
766 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
767 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
768 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
771 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
773 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
774 long debug lines gets shown.
776 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
777 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
779 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
781 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
782 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
783 of $primary_hostname.
785 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
786 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
787 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
788 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
789 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
790 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
791 by change 4.50/55 above.
793 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
794 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
795 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
796 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
797 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
801 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
802 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
803 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
806 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
807 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
809 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
810 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
811 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
812 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
813 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
815 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
818 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
819 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
820 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
821 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
824 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
826 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
827 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
828 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
829 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
831 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
832 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
834 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
835 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
836 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
838 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
839 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
840 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
843 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
844 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
845 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
847 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
848 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
849 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
850 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
852 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
855 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
856 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
858 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
860 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
861 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
862 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
863 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
864 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
867 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
868 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
870 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
871 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
872 for the non-SMTP ACL.
874 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
876 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
877 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
878 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
879 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
880 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
881 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
884 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
885 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
886 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
887 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
888 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
890 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
893 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
895 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
898 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
899 OS variants using glibc.
901 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
904 ----------------------------------------------------
905 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
906 ----------------------------------------------------
912 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
913 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
916 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
917 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
920 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
921 filter fails to execute.
923 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
924 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
925 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
926 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
927 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
929 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
930 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
931 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
932 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
934 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
935 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
936 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
937 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
938 control that does not make sense is encountered.
940 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
942 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
943 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
944 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
945 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
947 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
948 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
951 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
952 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
954 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
955 the spool by the -Mrm option.
957 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
960 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
961 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
962 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
963 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
966 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
967 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
968 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
970 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
971 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
972 wake it up if nothing else does.
974 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
975 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
976 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
979 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
980 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
982 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
984 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
985 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
988 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
989 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
992 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
993 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
994 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
995 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
996 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
999 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1000 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1003 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1004 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1005 $sender_host_address.
1007 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1009 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1010 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1011 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1013 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1016 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1017 (this can affect the format of dates).
1019 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1020 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1021 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1022 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1024 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1025 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1026 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1028 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1029 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1030 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1031 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1033 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1034 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1035 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1037 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1040 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1041 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1042 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1043 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1044 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1045 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1048 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1049 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1050 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1051 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1054 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1055 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1056 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1057 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1058 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1059 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1060 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1062 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1063 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1064 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1065 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1066 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1067 running as the user.
1070 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1071 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1072 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1075 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1076 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1077 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1078 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1079 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1081 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1082 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1083 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1084 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1087 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1088 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1089 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1090 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1091 because the tests only now provoked it.
1097 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1098 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1099 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1100 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1101 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1102 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1103 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1105 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1106 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1109 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1111 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1113 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1114 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1117 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1118 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1119 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1120 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1121 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1123 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1124 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1126 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1128 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1130 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1133 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1134 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1136 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1137 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1138 affecting debugging statements).
1140 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1142 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1143 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1144 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1145 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1146 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1147 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1148 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1149 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1150 after the received time, and all would be well.
1152 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1153 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1154 condition in an expansion string.
1156 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1158 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1159 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1160 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1161 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1162 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1163 job under whatever limits there are.
1165 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1167 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1170 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1171 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1172 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1173 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1176 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1177 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1178 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1179 binary data in such strings.
1181 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1183 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1184 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1185 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1186 failure, which is pointless.
1188 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1190 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1192 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1193 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1194 Sender: header lines.
1196 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1197 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1198 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1200 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1201 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1202 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1203 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1204 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1207 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1208 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1209 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1210 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1211 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1213 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1214 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1215 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1218 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1219 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1221 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1222 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1224 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1226 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1228 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1230 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1233 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1235 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1237 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1238 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1239 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1240 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1242 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1243 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1249 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1250 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1251 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1253 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1254 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1255 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1256 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1257 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1258 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1260 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1261 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1262 verification failure".
1264 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1265 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1266 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1267 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1269 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1270 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1271 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1272 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1273 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1274 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1275 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1276 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1277 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1278 treated as a timeout.
1280 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1281 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1282 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1283 not set for Exim filters).
1285 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1286 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1287 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1289 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1291 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1292 try to make them clearer.
1294 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1295 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1297 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1299 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1301 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1302 only the Cygwin environment.
1304 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1305 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1306 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1307 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1308 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1310 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1311 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1312 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1313 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1314 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1315 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1316 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1318 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1319 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1321 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1323 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1324 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1325 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1327 To: susanne@some.where
1329 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1330 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1331 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1332 of addresses in From: header lines).
1334 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1335 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1336 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1338 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1339 treated as non-personal.
1341 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1342 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1344 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1346 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1348 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1349 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1350 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1352 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1353 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1355 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1356 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1357 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1358 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1359 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1360 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1362 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1363 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1364 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1365 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1366 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1367 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1368 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1369 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1371 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1373 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1374 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1376 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1377 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1378 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1380 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1381 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1383 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1384 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1385 rather than long int.
1387 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1389 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1395 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1396 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1397 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1398 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1399 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1400 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1406 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1407 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1409 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1410 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1411 socklen_t is defined.
1413 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1416 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1419 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1420 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1421 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1422 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1423 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1425 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1426 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1427 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1428 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1430 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1431 of flapping under certain conditions.
1433 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1434 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1435 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1437 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1439 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1441 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1442 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1443 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1444 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1446 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1447 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1448 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1449 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1450 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1451 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1452 preserved with the message after it was received.
1454 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1455 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1456 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1457 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1458 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1459 test suite worked just fine.
1461 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1462 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1463 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1465 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1466 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1469 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1470 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1471 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1472 does not fully solve it.
1474 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1475 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1476 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1477 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1478 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1480 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1481 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1482 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1484 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1485 string, for example:
1487 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1489 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1490 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1491 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1492 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1493 the routers could not see them.
1495 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1496 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1498 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1499 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1502 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1503 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1504 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1505 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1506 that needed quoting.
1508 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1509 was not being matched caselessly.
1511 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1514 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1515 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1516 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1517 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1518 when use_sender is false.
1520 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1522 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1524 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1526 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1527 the configuration file.
1529 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1530 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1532 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1534 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1535 bytes in the message body.
1537 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1538 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1541 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1543 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1545 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1546 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1547 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1548 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1555 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1556 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1558 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1559 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1560 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1561 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1562 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1564 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1565 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1567 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1568 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1569 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1571 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1572 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1573 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1575 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1578 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1579 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1580 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1581 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1582 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1583 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1584 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1590 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1591 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1592 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1593 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1594 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1595 default (and expected) setting.
1597 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1598 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1599 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1600 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1602 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1603 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1605 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1608 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1609 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1610 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1611 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1612 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1613 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1615 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1616 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1617 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1619 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1620 part (NOT match_host).
1622 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1624 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1625 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1626 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1627 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1628 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1629 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1630 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1631 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1632 the same named file.
1634 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1635 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1638 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1639 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1640 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1641 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1644 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1645 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1646 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1648 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1650 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1652 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1654 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1655 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1657 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1658 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1659 before starting the TLS session.
1661 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1663 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1664 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1666 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1667 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1668 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1669 colon in the middle).
1675 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1676 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1677 multiple configurations are in use.
1679 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1680 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1681 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1682 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1683 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1684 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1686 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1687 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1689 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1690 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1691 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1693 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1694 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1697 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1698 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1700 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1702 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1703 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1705 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1713 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1714 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1715 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1716 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1717 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1719 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1722 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1723 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1724 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1725 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1726 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1727 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1729 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1730 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1731 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1732 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1733 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1734 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1735 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1738 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1739 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1740 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1741 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1742 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1744 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1746 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1747 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1748 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1750 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1752 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1753 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1754 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1757 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1758 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1760 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1761 Three changes have been made:
1763 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1764 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1765 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1766 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1767 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1769 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1772 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1773 the modified behaviour.
1779 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1782 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1783 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1785 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1786 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1787 try to track down a specific problem.
1789 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1790 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1791 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1793 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1796 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1797 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1798 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1799 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1800 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1801 some earlier ones do not.
1803 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1805 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1806 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1807 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1808 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1809 address literals are enabled, of course).
1811 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1813 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1814 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1815 by a command such as
1819 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1821 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1823 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1824 remained set. It is now erased.
1826 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1827 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1829 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1830 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1831 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1832 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1833 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1834 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1835 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1836 appropriate error code.
1838 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1839 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1840 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1841 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1842 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1843 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1845 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1846 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1847 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1849 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1850 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1851 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1852 terminate the header.
1854 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1855 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1856 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1858 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1859 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1860 (4.30/29). In particular:
1862 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1865 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1866 to write a maildirsize file.
1868 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1869 the transport, the new value overrides.
1871 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1874 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1875 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1876 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1879 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1880 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1881 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1884 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1885 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1886 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1888 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1889 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1892 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1893 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1894 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1896 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1898 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1900 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1902 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1903 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1906 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1907 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1908 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1909 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1910 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1911 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1912 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1915 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1916 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1917 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1918 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1919 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1922 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1923 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1924 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1925 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1926 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1927 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1928 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1929 cached value only when the same options are set.
1931 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1933 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1934 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1935 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1936 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1937 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1939 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1940 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1941 it is clearly obsolete.
1943 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1946 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1947 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1948 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1951 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1952 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1953 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1954 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1955 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1957 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1958 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1959 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1960 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1962 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1964 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1966 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1967 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1970 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1971 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1972 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1973 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1974 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1975 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1978 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1979 with the -f command-line option.
1981 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1982 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1983 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1984 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1985 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1986 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1988 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1989 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1992 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1993 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1994 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1995 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1996 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1997 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1998 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1999 buffer is too small.
2001 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2002 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2004 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2005 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2006 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2007 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2008 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2009 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2010 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2011 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2012 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2014 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2015 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2016 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2018 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2019 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2022 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2023 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2024 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2025 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2026 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2028 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2029 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2030 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2031 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2034 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2036 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2038 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2039 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2041 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2042 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2043 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2045 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2046 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2047 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2048 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2049 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2051 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2052 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2053 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2054 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2055 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2056 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2057 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2059 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2060 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2061 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2062 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2063 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2064 the test of how many are available.
2066 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2067 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2068 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2069 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2070 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2071 new message is started.
2073 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2074 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2076 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2077 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2079 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2080 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2081 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2084 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2085 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2086 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2087 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2088 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2089 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2090 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2092 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2093 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2094 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2095 interpreted as octal.
2097 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2100 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2101 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2102 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2103 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2104 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2105 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2107 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2108 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2109 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2110 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2112 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2113 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2114 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2115 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2117 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2118 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2121 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2122 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2124 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2126 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2127 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2128 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2129 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2131 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2132 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2133 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2134 supplied", which is not helpful.
2136 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2137 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2138 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2140 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2141 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2142 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2143 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2144 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2145 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2146 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2147 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2149 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2150 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2151 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2152 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2153 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2155 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2156 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2157 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2158 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2159 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2160 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2162 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2163 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2164 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2166 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2168 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2169 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2170 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2173 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2175 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2176 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2177 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2178 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2179 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2180 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2181 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2182 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2184 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2185 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2186 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2187 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2188 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2190 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2193 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2194 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2195 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2196 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2197 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2198 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2199 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2200 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2201 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2207 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2208 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2209 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2211 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2214 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2215 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2216 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2218 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2219 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2220 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2221 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2222 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2223 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2225 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2226 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2227 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2228 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2229 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2230 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2231 the Exim test suite.
2233 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2234 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2235 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2236 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2238 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2239 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2240 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2241 specify it in this variable.
2243 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2244 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2245 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2246 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2248 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2249 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2250 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2251 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2253 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2254 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2255 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2256 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2257 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2259 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2261 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2264 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2265 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2266 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2267 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2268 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2270 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2271 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2273 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2274 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2275 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2276 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2277 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2279 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2280 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2282 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2283 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2284 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2286 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2287 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2289 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2290 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2292 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2293 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2294 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2296 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2297 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2299 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2300 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2301 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2302 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2304 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2306 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2307 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2308 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2309 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2311 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2313 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2314 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2316 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2318 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2319 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2320 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2321 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2322 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2323 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2325 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2327 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2328 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2331 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2333 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2334 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2336 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2337 550 Sender verify failed
2339 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2340 the final line of the response.
2342 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2343 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2344 all other user lookups.
2346 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2349 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2350 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2351 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2352 result into an int without checking.
2354 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2355 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2356 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2358 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2359 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2360 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2361 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2363 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2366 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2367 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2369 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2370 to the empty sender.
2372 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2373 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2374 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2375 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2376 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2377 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2378 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2381 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2382 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2383 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2384 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2387 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2388 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2390 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2393 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2394 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2396 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2398 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2399 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2402 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2403 as soon as it is encountered.
2405 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2407 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2410 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2411 recognizes a tab character.
2413 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2414 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2415 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2416 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2418 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2420 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2423 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2425 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2427 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2428 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2431 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2432 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2433 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2434 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2435 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2437 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2438 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2440 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2441 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2442 list (.included file names were always shown).
2444 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2445 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2446 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2449 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2450 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2452 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2454 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2456 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2458 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2459 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2460 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2461 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2462 failures to open the logs.
2464 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2465 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2466 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2467 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2468 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2469 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2470 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2476 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2477 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2478 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2481 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2482 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2483 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2485 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2486 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2487 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2489 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2490 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2491 causing some misleading effects.
2493 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2494 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2495 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2497 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2498 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2499 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2500 queue-runner function directly.
2506 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2509 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2510 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2511 was always written to the default place.
2513 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2514 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2515 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2517 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2519 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2521 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2522 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2523 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2525 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2526 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2529 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2530 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2531 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2533 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2534 command line option is disabled.
2536 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2537 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2539 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2541 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2543 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2544 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2546 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2548 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2549 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2550 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2551 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2552 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2553 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2555 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2556 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2559 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2560 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2562 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2563 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2565 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2566 received was valid base64.
2568 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2569 name of the variable that was being set.
2571 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2573 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2574 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2575 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2576 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2577 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2578 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2580 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2582 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2583 nor realm was specified.
2585 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2586 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2587 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2588 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2590 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2591 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2592 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2594 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2595 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2596 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2598 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2599 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2600 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2601 some systems use these upper case variants.
2603 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2604 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2605 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2606 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2608 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2610 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2611 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2613 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2614 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2617 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2619 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2620 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2621 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2622 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2624 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2627 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2628 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2629 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2631 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2632 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2634 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2635 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2636 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2637 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2639 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2640 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2641 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2643 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2645 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2646 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2647 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2648 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2651 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2652 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2653 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2655 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2657 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2658 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2660 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2661 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2663 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2664 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2665 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2666 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2667 when emails are that large.
2674 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2675 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2677 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2678 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2679 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2681 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2682 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2683 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2685 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2686 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2687 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2688 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2689 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2691 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2692 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2693 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2694 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2695 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2698 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2699 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2700 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2701 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2702 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2703 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2704 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2705 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2706 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2707 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2708 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2709 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2710 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2711 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2713 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2714 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2717 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2718 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2719 error should be diagnosed.
2721 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2722 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2723 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2724 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2725 appeared instead of "NULL".
2727 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2728 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2729 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2730 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2731 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2732 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2735 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2736 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2737 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2743 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2744 or receiver verification errors.
2746 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2749 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2750 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2751 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2752 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2754 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2755 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2756 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2757 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2758 shouldn't happen again.
2760 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2761 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2762 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2764 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2765 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2767 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2769 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2770 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2772 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2773 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2776 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2777 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2778 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2780 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2781 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2782 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2783 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2785 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2786 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2787 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2788 to define what should happen).
2790 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2791 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2792 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2794 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2796 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2798 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2799 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2801 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2802 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2803 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2804 structure in all cases.
2806 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2807 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2808 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2809 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2811 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2812 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2815 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2816 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2818 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2819 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2821 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2822 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2823 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2825 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2826 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2827 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2829 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2830 the book and for uniformity.
2832 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2834 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2835 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2836 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2837 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2838 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2839 non-existent command as the problem.
2841 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2842 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2843 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2845 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2847 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2848 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2849 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2851 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2852 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2853 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2854 timestamps using strftime().
2856 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2857 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2859 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2860 transport-time rewrites.
2862 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2863 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2864 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2865 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2867 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2868 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2870 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2871 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2872 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2873 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2876 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2877 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2878 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2879 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2880 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2881 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2882 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2884 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2885 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2886 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2887 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2888 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2890 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2891 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2892 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2893 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2894 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2895 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2896 remaining text gets split now.
2898 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2899 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2900 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2901 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2903 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2904 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2905 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2906 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2909 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2910 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2911 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2912 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2913 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2914 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2915 passed through if needed.
2917 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2918 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2919 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2920 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2921 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2922 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2924 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2925 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2926 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2927 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2928 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2930 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2931 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2932 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2933 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2934 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2936 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2937 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2940 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2941 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2942 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2943 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2944 mayhem of various kinds.
2946 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2947 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2948 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2949 the right test for positive values.
2951 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2952 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2953 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2954 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2955 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2956 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2957 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2958 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2959 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2960 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2963 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2966 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2967 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2970 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2971 the existing equality matching.
2973 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2974 dealing with inode numbers.
2976 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2977 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2978 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2980 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2981 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2982 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2983 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2986 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2987 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2988 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2989 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2990 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2991 relay addresses has also been removed.
2993 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2995 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2996 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2997 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2999 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3000 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3001 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3002 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3003 processing applies to CR:
3005 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3006 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3008 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3009 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3010 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3011 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3013 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3014 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3015 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3017 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3018 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3019 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3020 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3021 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3022 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3025 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3028 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3029 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3030 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3031 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3034 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3036 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3038 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3040 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3041 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3042 not considered personal.
3044 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3046 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3048 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3050 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3051 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3052 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3053 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3054 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3055 header lines, and spool format errors.
3057 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3058 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3059 for more flexibility.
3061 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3062 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3063 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3065 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3068 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3069 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3070 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3071 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3072 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3073 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3074 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3075 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3076 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3078 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3079 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3080 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3081 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3082 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3083 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3084 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3086 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3087 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3088 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3090 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3091 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3092 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3093 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3094 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3095 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3096 instead of killing the process with assert().
3098 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3099 than Unicode encoding.
3101 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3102 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3103 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3104 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3106 77. Added process_log_path.
3108 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3109 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3111 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3112 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3114 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3115 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3116 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3118 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3119 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3120 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3121 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3122 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3125 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3126 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3129 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3130 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3131 they will be used during message reception.
3137 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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