1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.632 2010/06/12 15:21:25 jetmore Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
11 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
12 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
14 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
16 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
18 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
21 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
22 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
28 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
31 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
32 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
33 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
35 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
36 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
38 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
39 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
40 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
42 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
43 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
45 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
46 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
48 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
49 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
51 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
52 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
54 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
55 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
57 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
60 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
61 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
63 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
64 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
66 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
67 SQL string expansion failure details.
68 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
70 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
71 Patch from Simon Arlott.
73 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
74 extern declarations in function scope.
75 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
77 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
78 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
79 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
82 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
83 Patch from Mark Zealey.
85 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
86 Patch from Mark Zealey.
88 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
89 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
91 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
92 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
94 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
95 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
98 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
100 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
102 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
103 Patch by Simon Arlott
105 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
106 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
112 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
113 consequences so log it to the panic log.
115 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
116 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
118 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
120 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
121 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
122 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
124 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
125 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
126 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
128 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
129 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
130 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
131 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
133 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
134 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
135 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
136 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
138 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
139 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
140 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
143 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
146 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
147 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
148 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
149 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
150 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
156 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
157 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
158 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
160 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
161 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
163 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
165 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
167 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
169 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
171 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
173 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
174 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
175 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
176 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
178 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
179 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
180 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
181 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
182 more caution in buffer sizes.
184 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
186 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
188 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
190 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
192 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
194 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
196 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
198 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
199 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
200 ignore trailing whitespace.
202 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
204 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
207 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
208 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
210 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
211 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
212 Notification from John Horne.
214 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
217 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
218 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
221 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
224 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
225 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
226 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
228 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
229 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
230 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
233 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
234 option (effectively making it always true).
236 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
237 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
239 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
240 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
242 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
243 run-time user, instead of root.
245 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
246 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
248 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
249 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
252 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
253 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
254 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
256 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
258 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
264 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
265 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
268 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
269 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
272 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
273 Patch from Alain Williams
275 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
277 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
278 Patch from Andreas Metzler
280 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
281 Patch from Kirill Miazine
283 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
285 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
287 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
288 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
290 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
292 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
294 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
295 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
296 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
298 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
299 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
301 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
302 Patch by Simon Arlott
304 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
305 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
311 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
313 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
315 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
317 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
319 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
325 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
326 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
328 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
329 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
332 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
333 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
334 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
336 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
337 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
339 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
340 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
341 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
342 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
344 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
345 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
346 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
348 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
350 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
352 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
353 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
355 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
357 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
358 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
359 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
360 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
362 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
363 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
365 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
367 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
369 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
370 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
372 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
373 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
375 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
376 that they are available at delivery time.
378 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
380 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
381 incoming_port log selectors.
383 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
384 setting expands to an empty string.
386 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
387 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
389 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
390 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
392 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
393 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
395 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
396 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
398 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
399 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
401 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
402 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
404 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
406 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
407 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
409 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
410 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
412 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
414 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
415 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
417 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
419 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
421 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
424 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
425 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
427 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
428 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
430 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
431 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
433 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
434 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
436 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
437 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
439 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
440 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
442 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
443 plus update to original patch.
445 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
447 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
448 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
450 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
452 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
454 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
456 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
458 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
459 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
461 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
462 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
464 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
465 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
467 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
468 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
470 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
472 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
474 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
476 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
482 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
483 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
484 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
486 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
487 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
488 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
489 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
490 build errors in sieve.c.
492 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
493 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
494 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
496 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
498 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
500 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
502 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
508 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
510 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
511 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
512 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
513 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
514 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
515 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
516 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
517 for iplsearch lookups.
519 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
520 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
521 previously such lookups could never work.
523 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
524 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
525 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
527 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
530 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
531 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
532 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
533 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
534 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
535 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
537 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
538 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
540 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
541 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
542 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
543 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
544 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
545 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
547 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
550 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
552 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
553 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
556 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
557 by clients under certain conditions.
559 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
560 "_responses" off the end of the name.
562 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
564 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
565 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
567 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
569 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
571 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
573 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
574 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
576 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
578 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
579 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
581 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
583 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
585 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
586 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
587 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
588 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
590 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
591 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
592 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
594 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
595 and InterBase are left for another time.)
597 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
599 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
601 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
603 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
604 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
605 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
611 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
612 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
615 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
616 issue a MAIL command.
618 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
620 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
622 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
623 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
624 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
625 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
626 item. This has been fixed.
628 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
629 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
631 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
632 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
634 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
635 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
636 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
638 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
640 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
641 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
642 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
643 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
644 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
646 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
647 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
648 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
650 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
651 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
652 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
653 the server_setid option was incorrect.
655 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
657 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
659 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
660 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
661 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
662 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
663 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
665 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
667 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
668 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
669 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
672 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
674 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
676 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
678 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
680 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
682 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
683 no_callout_flush is set.
685 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
686 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
687 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
690 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
692 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
693 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
694 other ACL rejections are.
696 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
697 with slight modification.
699 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
700 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
702 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
703 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
706 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
707 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
709 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
711 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
712 expansion side effects.
714 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
715 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
716 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
719 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
720 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
721 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
723 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
724 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
725 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
726 were accidentally chopped off.
728 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
729 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
730 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
731 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
732 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
733 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
734 pipelining has not been advertised.
736 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
738 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
739 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
742 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
743 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
746 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
747 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
748 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
749 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
750 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
751 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
752 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
754 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
757 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
759 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
761 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
762 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
763 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
764 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
765 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
766 criteria to be more general.
768 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
769 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
770 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
771 host_all_ignored option.
773 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
774 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
775 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
776 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
777 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
778 is what is supposed to happen).
780 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
781 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
782 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
783 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
784 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
787 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
788 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
789 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
790 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
791 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
792 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
795 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
797 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
798 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
800 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
801 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
803 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
805 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
807 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
808 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
809 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
810 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
811 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
812 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
813 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
814 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
815 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
816 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
817 least in a lot of common cases.
819 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
820 advertised in response to EHLO.
826 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
827 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
829 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
830 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
832 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
833 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
834 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
836 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
837 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
838 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
839 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
840 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
846 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
847 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
850 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
851 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
852 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
854 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
855 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
856 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
857 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
858 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
859 rather than extend the field.
865 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
866 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
867 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
868 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
871 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
872 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
873 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
875 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
876 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
877 hence the _LINUX specificness.
879 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
880 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
881 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
884 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
885 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
886 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
887 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
888 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
889 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
890 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
891 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
892 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
893 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
894 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
896 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
899 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
900 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
901 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
902 ignores EPIPE as well.
904 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
905 (quoted-printable decoding).
907 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
908 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
910 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
912 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
914 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
916 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
917 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
919 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
922 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
923 miscellaneous code fixes
925 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
928 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
929 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
930 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
931 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
932 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
933 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
934 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
935 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
937 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
938 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
939 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
940 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
942 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
943 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
944 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
945 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
946 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
947 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
948 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
949 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
950 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
952 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
955 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
956 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
957 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
958 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
959 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
960 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
961 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
962 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
964 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
965 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
968 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
969 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
970 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
971 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
972 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
973 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
974 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
975 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
976 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
977 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
978 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
979 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
980 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
982 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
983 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
984 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
985 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
986 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
987 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
988 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
990 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
991 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
992 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
993 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
994 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
995 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
996 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
997 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
998 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
999 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1001 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1002 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1003 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1004 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1005 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1007 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1008 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1009 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1010 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1011 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1012 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1013 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1015 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1016 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1017 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1018 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1019 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1020 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1023 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1024 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1025 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1028 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1029 if any retry times were supplied.
1031 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1032 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1033 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1035 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1037 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1039 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1040 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1041 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1042 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1043 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1044 before) are ignored.
1046 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1047 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1049 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1050 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1051 committing the later change.]
1053 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1054 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1055 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1056 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1057 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1058 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1059 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1060 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1061 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1063 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1064 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1065 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1066 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1067 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1068 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1069 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1070 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1071 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1073 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1074 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1075 hammering the server.
1077 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1078 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1080 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1082 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1083 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1084 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1086 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1087 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1088 one case where this was not true.
1090 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1091 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1092 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1093 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1096 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1097 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1098 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1099 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1100 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1101 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1102 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1103 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1104 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1107 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1108 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1109 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1110 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1112 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1113 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1115 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1116 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1117 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1119 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1121 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1123 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1125 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1126 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1127 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1128 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1130 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1131 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1133 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1134 be meaningful with "accept".
1136 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1137 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1139 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1140 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1141 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1143 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1144 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1145 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1146 there is data to show.
1147 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1149 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1150 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1151 as well as the number of messages.
1153 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1154 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1155 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1157 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1158 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1159 have a flag are now skipped.
1161 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1162 Added the -emptyok flag.
1164 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1165 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1167 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1168 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1169 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1171 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1174 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1175 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1177 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1179 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1180 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1182 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1184 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1185 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1186 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1187 contravention of the specifications.
1189 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1190 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1191 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1193 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1194 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1195 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1197 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1199 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1200 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1201 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1202 some point in the past.
1204 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1205 transport during callout processing was broken.
1207 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1208 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1210 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1211 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1213 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1214 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1216 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1222 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1223 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1225 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1226 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1227 there is data to show.
1228 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1230 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1231 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1233 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1234 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1236 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1237 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1239 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1240 submissions from trusted users.
1242 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1243 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1245 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1246 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1247 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1248 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1249 there is now a framework to start from.
1251 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1252 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1253 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1255 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1257 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1259 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1261 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1262 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1263 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1265 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1268 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1269 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1270 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1272 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1273 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1274 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1277 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1278 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1279 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1280 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1281 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1283 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1284 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1286 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1288 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1289 operations in malware.c.
1291 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1294 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1295 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1296 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1299 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1300 statements to "add_header".
1302 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1303 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1305 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1306 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1309 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1313 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1314 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1315 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1318 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1319 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1321 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1322 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1324 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1325 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1326 any possible encoding problems.
1328 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1329 but not after initializing Perl.
1331 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1332 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1333 apparently, which is not desirable.
1335 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1338 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1341 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1343 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1344 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1345 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1346 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1348 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1349 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1350 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1352 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1353 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1354 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1357 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1358 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1359 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1360 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1361 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1367 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1368 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1370 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1373 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1374 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1375 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1376 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1377 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1378 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1379 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1380 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1383 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1385 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1386 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1387 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1389 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1390 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1391 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1394 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1395 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1397 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1398 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1399 option (which defaults to 0600).
1401 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1403 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1404 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1405 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1406 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1407 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1408 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1409 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1411 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1417 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1418 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1419 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1420 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1421 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1422 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1425 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1426 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1428 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1430 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1431 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1432 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1433 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1434 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1437 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1438 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1440 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1441 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1442 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1443 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1444 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1446 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1447 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1448 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1449 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1451 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1452 be the same on different OS.
1454 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1457 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1458 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1460 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1463 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1464 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1465 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1466 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1467 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1468 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1471 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1472 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1473 when Exim was called.
1475 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1476 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1478 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1479 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1480 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1481 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1483 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1484 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1485 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1486 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1489 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1490 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1491 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1493 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1494 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1495 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1497 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1500 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1501 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1502 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1503 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1504 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1505 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1506 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1507 values from the SRV records were lost.
1509 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1510 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1511 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1513 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1514 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1515 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1517 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1518 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1519 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1520 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1521 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1522 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1523 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1524 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1525 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1526 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1528 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1529 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1530 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1532 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1533 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1535 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1536 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1537 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1538 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1541 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1542 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1543 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1545 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1546 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1547 PH/23 above applies.
1549 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1550 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1551 (for which there is an explicit test).
1553 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1555 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1556 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1557 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1558 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1559 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1561 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1562 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1563 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1564 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1566 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1567 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1568 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1570 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1572 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1574 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1575 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1576 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1578 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1579 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1580 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1581 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1582 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1584 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1585 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1586 the message gets confusing).
1588 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1589 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1590 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1591 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1593 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1594 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1595 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1596 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1599 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1600 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1601 the different processes.
1603 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1605 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1607 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1608 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1610 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1611 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1613 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1614 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1615 messages matching specified criteria.
1617 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1619 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1620 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1622 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1623 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1624 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1625 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1626 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1627 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1628 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1629 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1630 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1631 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1633 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1634 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1635 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1637 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1639 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1640 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1641 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1642 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1643 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1644 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1645 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1648 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1649 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1651 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1653 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1655 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1657 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1658 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1659 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1660 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1661 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1662 size of the count of files.
1664 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1666 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1669 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1670 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1671 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1672 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1674 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1675 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1676 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1678 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1679 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1680 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1681 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1682 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1684 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1685 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1687 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1688 will now be deprecated.
1690 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1692 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1693 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1694 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1696 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1697 with very large, slow to parse queues
1699 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1701 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1703 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1704 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1705 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1708 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1709 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1710 Sieve code now uses this.
1712 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1713 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1715 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1716 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1718 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1720 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1721 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1722 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1723 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1724 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1726 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1727 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1728 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1729 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1731 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1733 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1735 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1736 is preferred over IPv4.
1738 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1739 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1740 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1741 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1742 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1743 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1744 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1746 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1747 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1748 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1750 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1752 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1753 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1754 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1755 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1756 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1757 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1758 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1759 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1760 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1761 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1762 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1764 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1765 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1766 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1772 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1774 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1775 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1777 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1778 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1779 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1781 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1783 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1786 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1789 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1790 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1791 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1794 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1795 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1797 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1798 inside the third argument.
1800 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1801 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1804 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1805 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1807 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1808 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1810 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1812 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1813 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1816 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1818 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1819 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1820 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1821 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1822 identical. For example:
1824 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1826 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1827 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1828 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1830 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1831 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1832 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1833 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1835 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1836 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1837 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1840 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1842 o fixes some comments
1843 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1844 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1845 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1846 and documents the missing references header update
1850 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1851 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1854 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1855 Electronic Mail") by including:
1857 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1859 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1860 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1861 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1862 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1863 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1865 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1867 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1869 The auto-replied keyword:
1871 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1872 message by an automatic process,
1874 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1876 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1877 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1879 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1880 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1883 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1884 to the default Received: header definition.
1886 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1888 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1889 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1890 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1892 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1893 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1894 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1896 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1897 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1898 and treats the condition as false.
1900 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1902 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1903 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1904 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1905 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1906 not changing the active code.
1908 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1909 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1911 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1912 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1914 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1917 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1918 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1919 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1920 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1921 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1922 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1923 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1924 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1925 the text comparison.
1927 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1928 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1929 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1930 The same fix has been applied.
1936 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1937 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1940 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1941 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1943 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1945 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1946 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1947 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1948 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1949 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1951 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1952 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1953 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1954 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1957 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1965 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1966 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1968 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1970 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1972 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1973 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1974 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1976 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1977 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1978 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1980 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1981 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1984 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1985 ${stat: expansion item.
1987 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1988 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1990 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1991 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1994 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1996 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1999 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2000 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2002 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2004 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2005 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2006 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2007 the end of the subprocess.
2009 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2010 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2011 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2012 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2013 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2015 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2017 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2019 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2020 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2022 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2024 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2026 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2027 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2030 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2032 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2033 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2034 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2036 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2037 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2039 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2040 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2042 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2043 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2045 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2046 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2048 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2049 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2050 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2051 contributed by a Radius user.
2053 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2054 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2056 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2057 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2059 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2062 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2063 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2066 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2067 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2068 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2069 header lines when this was not necessary.
2071 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2073 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2074 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2075 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2078 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2081 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2082 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2083 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2084 return code was incorrect.
2086 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2088 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2090 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2092 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2094 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2095 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2096 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2097 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2098 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2101 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2103 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2104 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2105 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2106 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2107 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2108 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2109 which is clearly wrong.
2111 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2113 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2114 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2115 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2118 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2119 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2121 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2123 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2124 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2126 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2127 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2129 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2130 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2132 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2133 recipients, not senders.
2135 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2136 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2138 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2140 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2142 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2143 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2144 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2145 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2147 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2149 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2150 clock is set back in time.
2152 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2153 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2155 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2156 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2158 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2159 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2162 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2163 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2166 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2169 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2171 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2172 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2173 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2175 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2176 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2177 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2178 helo verification defer as a failure.
2180 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2181 actual error message.
2187 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2189 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2190 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2191 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2192 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2194 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2196 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2197 can still be requested.
2199 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2200 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2201 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2202 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2204 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2205 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2206 circumstances, but probably never did.
2208 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2209 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2210 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2213 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2215 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2216 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2218 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2220 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2222 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2223 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2224 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2225 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2226 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2227 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2229 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2230 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2231 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2232 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2233 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2234 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2236 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2237 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2239 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2240 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2242 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2243 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2245 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2247 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2249 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2251 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2253 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2255 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2257 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2259 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2260 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2261 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2263 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2264 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2265 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2266 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2268 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2269 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2270 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2272 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2273 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2274 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2275 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2277 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2278 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2281 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2282 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2283 should work with maildirs and everything.
2285 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2286 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2288 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2291 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2292 function for BDB 4.3.
2294 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2296 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2297 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2300 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2301 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2302 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2303 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2304 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2305 formatting function string_vformat().
2307 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2308 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2309 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2310 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2311 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2312 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2313 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2314 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2316 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2317 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2320 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2321 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2323 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2324 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2325 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2326 test. It is now used for both.
2328 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2329 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2330 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2331 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2332 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2333 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2335 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2336 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2337 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2340 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2341 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2342 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2344 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2345 experimental DomainKeys support:
2347 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2348 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2349 the control was given.
2351 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2353 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2355 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2357 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2358 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2359 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2362 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2363 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2364 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2365 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2366 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2367 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2370 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2371 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2372 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2373 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2374 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2375 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2377 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2378 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2379 do -d+all out of habit.
2381 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2382 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2385 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2386 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2387 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2388 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2389 record types that Exim uses.
2391 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2392 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2393 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2394 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2395 non-existent file that was broken.
2397 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2398 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2400 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2401 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2402 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2404 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2406 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2407 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2408 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2409 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2410 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2413 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2414 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2415 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2416 at a slight CPU cost.
2418 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2419 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2421 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2424 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2426 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2427 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2433 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2434 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2436 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2438 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2440 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2441 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2443 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2444 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2445 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2446 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2447 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2448 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2451 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2452 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2453 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2454 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2457 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2458 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2459 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2460 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2461 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2462 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2463 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2466 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2467 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2469 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2470 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2471 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2472 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2473 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2474 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2476 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2477 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2478 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2479 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2481 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2484 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2485 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2487 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2488 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2489 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2490 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2493 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2495 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2496 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2498 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2499 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2500 to what was transported.)
2502 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2504 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2505 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2506 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2507 spamd_address settings.
2509 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2510 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2511 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2512 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2513 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2515 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2517 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2518 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2519 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2520 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2521 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2523 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2524 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2526 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2527 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2528 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2529 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2530 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2531 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2532 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2535 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2536 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2537 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2538 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2539 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2540 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2541 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2544 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2546 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2547 driver and ACL definitions.
2549 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2550 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2552 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2553 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2554 understands it better than I do:
2556 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2557 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2559 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2560 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2561 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2562 => three warnings about OTP not working
2563 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2565 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2566 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2567 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2568 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2570 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2571 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2573 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2574 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2575 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2577 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2578 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2581 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2582 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2585 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2586 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2587 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2589 warn !verify = sender
2590 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2592 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2593 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2595 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2597 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2598 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2600 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2601 nomenclature these days.)
2603 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2604 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2606 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2607 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2608 . First host does not offer TLS;
2609 . First host accepts first address;
2610 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2611 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2612 . Second host accepts second address.
2613 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2614 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2617 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2618 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2619 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2620 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2621 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2623 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2624 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2626 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2627 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2629 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2630 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2631 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2633 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2634 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2637 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2639 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2640 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2641 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2642 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2643 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2644 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2645 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2647 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2648 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2649 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2650 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2651 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2653 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2654 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2657 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2658 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2659 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2660 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2661 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2662 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2664 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2666 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2667 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2668 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2669 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2670 printable escape sequences.
2672 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2673 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2676 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2677 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2680 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2681 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2682 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2683 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2684 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2686 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2687 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2688 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2690 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2692 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2693 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2696 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2697 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2698 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2699 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2700 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2701 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2702 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2703 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2704 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2707 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2708 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2709 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2710 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2714 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2715 ----------------------------------------
2717 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2718 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2719 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2720 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2721 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2722 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2725 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
2726 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2727 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2728 historical information.
2734 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2736 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2737 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2739 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2740 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2743 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2744 filter fails to execute.
2746 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2747 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2748 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2749 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2750 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2752 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2754 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2755 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2756 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2757 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2759 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2760 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2761 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2762 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2763 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2765 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2767 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2769 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2770 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2771 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2772 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2774 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2775 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2776 sender verification.
2778 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2779 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2781 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2783 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2786 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2787 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2789 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2790 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2792 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2793 information about exactly what failed.
2795 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2797 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2798 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2799 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2801 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2802 It is now set to "smtps".
2804 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2805 ignore_target_hosts.
2807 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2808 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2809 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2810 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2813 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2814 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2815 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2817 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2818 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2819 wake it up if nothing else does.
2821 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2822 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2823 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2826 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2827 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2829 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2831 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2832 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2833 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2834 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2835 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2836 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2837 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2838 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2840 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2841 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2842 than one IP address.
2844 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2845 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2846 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2847 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2849 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2850 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2851 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2852 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2853 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2856 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2857 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2858 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2859 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2861 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2862 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2865 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2866 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2867 $sender_host_address.
2869 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2870 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2871 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2872 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2873 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2876 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2878 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2879 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2881 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2882 just the host names, not the priorities.
2884 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2885 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2886 controlled by a keyword.
2888 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2889 multiple records are returned.
2891 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2892 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2895 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2897 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2898 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2900 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2901 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2902 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2904 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2906 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2908 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2910 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2911 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2912 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2913 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2914 because the tests only now provoked it.
2916 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2917 (this can affect the format of dates).
2919 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2920 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2921 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2922 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2924 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2926 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2927 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2928 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2929 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2931 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2932 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2933 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2935 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2938 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2939 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2940 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2941 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2942 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2943 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2946 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2947 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2948 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2951 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2952 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2953 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2955 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2956 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2957 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2958 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2959 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2960 so I produce this patch..."
2962 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2963 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2966 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2967 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2968 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2969 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2972 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2974 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2975 long debug lines gets shown.
2977 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2978 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2980 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2982 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2983 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2984 of $primary_hostname.
2986 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2987 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2988 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2989 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2990 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2991 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2992 by change 4.50/55 above.
2994 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2995 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2996 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2997 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2998 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2999 running as the user.
3002 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3003 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3004 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3007 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3008 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3010 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3011 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3012 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3013 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3014 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3016 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3017 This has been fixed.
3019 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3020 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3021 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3022 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3025 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3027 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3028 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3029 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3030 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3032 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3033 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3035 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3036 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3037 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3039 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3040 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3041 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3044 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3045 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3046 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3048 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3049 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3050 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3051 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3053 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3054 during host lookups.
3056 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3057 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3059 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3061 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3062 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3063 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3064 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3065 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3068 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3069 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3071 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3072 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3073 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3075 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3077 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3078 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3079 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3080 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3081 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3082 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3085 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3086 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3087 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3088 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3089 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3091 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3094 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3096 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3097 "vacation" handling.
3099 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3100 OS variants using glibc.
3102 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3105 ----------------------------------------------------
3106 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3107 ----------------------------------------------------
3113 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3114 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3117 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3118 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3121 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3122 filter fails to execute.
3124 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3125 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3126 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3127 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3128 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3130 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3131 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3132 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3133 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3135 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3136 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3137 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3138 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3139 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3141 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3143 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3144 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3145 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3146 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3148 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3149 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3150 sender verification.
3152 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3153 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3155 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3156 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3158 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3159 ignore_target_hosts.
3161 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3162 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3163 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3164 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3167 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3168 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3169 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3171 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3172 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3173 wake it up if nothing else does.
3175 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3176 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3177 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3180 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3181 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3183 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3185 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3186 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3189 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3190 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3193 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3194 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3195 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3196 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3197 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3200 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3201 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3204 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3205 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3206 $sender_host_address.
3208 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3210 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3211 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3212 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3214 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3217 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3218 (this can affect the format of dates).
3220 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3221 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3222 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3223 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3225 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3226 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3227 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3229 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3230 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3231 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3232 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3234 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3235 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3236 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3238 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3241 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3242 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3243 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3244 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3245 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3246 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3249 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3250 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3251 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3252 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3255 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3256 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3257 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3258 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3259 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3260 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3261 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3263 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3264 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3265 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3266 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3267 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3268 running as the user.
3271 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3272 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3273 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3276 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3277 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3278 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3279 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3280 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3282 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3283 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3284 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3285 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3288 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3289 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3290 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3291 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3292 because the tests only now provoked it.
3298 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3299 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3300 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3301 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3302 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3303 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3304 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3306 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3307 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3310 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3312 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3314 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3315 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3318 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3319 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3320 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3321 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3322 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3324 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3325 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3327 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3329 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3331 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3334 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3335 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3337 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3338 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3339 affecting debugging statements).
3341 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3343 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3344 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3345 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3346 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3347 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3348 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3349 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3350 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3351 after the received time, and all would be well.
3353 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3354 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3355 condition in an expansion string.
3357 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3359 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3360 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3361 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3362 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3363 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3364 job under whatever limits there are.
3366 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3368 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3371 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3372 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3373 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3374 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3377 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3378 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3379 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3380 binary data in such strings.
3382 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3384 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3385 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3386 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3387 failure, which is pointless.
3389 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3391 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3393 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3394 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3395 Sender: header lines.
3397 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3398 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3399 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3401 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3402 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3403 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3404 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3405 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3408 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3409 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3410 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3411 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3412 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3414 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3415 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3416 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3419 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3420 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3422 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3423 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3425 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3427 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3429 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3431 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3434 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3436 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3438 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3439 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3440 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3441 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3443 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3444 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3450 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3451 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3452 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3454 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3455 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3456 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3457 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3458 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3459 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3461 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3462 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3463 verification failure".
3465 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3466 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3467 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3468 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3470 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3471 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3472 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3473 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3474 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3475 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3476 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3477 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3478 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3479 treated as a timeout.
3481 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3482 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3483 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3484 not set for Exim filters).
3486 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3487 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3488 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3490 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3492 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3493 try to make them clearer.
3495 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3496 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3498 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3500 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3502 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3503 only the Cygwin environment.
3505 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3506 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3507 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3508 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3509 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3511 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard