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2
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5
6 Exim version 4.53
7 -----------------
8
9 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
10 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
11
12 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
13
14 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
15
16 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
17 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
18 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
19
20
21 Exim version 4.52
22 -----------------
23
24 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
25
26 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
27 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
28 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
29 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
30
31 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
32
33 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
34 can still be requested.
35
36 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
37 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
38 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
39 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
40
41 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
42 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
43 circumstances, but probably never did.
44
45 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
46 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
47 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
48 in the header line.
49
50 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
51
52 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
53 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
54
55 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
56
57 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
58
59 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
60 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
61 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
62 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
63 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
64 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
65
66 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
67 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
68 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
69 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
70 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
71 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
72
73 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
74 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
75
76 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
77 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
78
79 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
80 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
81
82 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
83
84 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
85
86 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
87
88 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
89
90 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
91
92 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
93
94 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
95
96 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
97 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
98 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
99
100 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
101 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
102 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
103 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
104
105 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
106 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
107 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
108
109 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
110 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
111 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
112 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
113
114 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
115 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
116 to be made).
117
118 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
119 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
120 should work with maildirs and everything.
121
122 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
123 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
124
125 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
126 <jgh@wizmail.org>
127
128 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
129 function for BDB 4.3.
130
131 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
132
133 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
134 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
135 involved.
136
137 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
138 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
139 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
140 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
141 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
142 formatting function string_vformat().
143
144 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
145 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
146 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
147 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
148 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
149 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
150 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
151 falls back to the previous guessing code."
152
153 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
154 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
155 details.
156
157 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
158 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
159
160 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
161 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
162 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
163 test. It is now used for both.
164
165 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
166 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
167 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
168 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
169 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
170 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
171
172 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
173 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
174 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
175 string_vformat().
176
177 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
178 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
179 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
180
181 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
182 experimental DomainKeys support:
183
184 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
185 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
186 the control was given.
187
188 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
189
190 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
191
192 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
193
194 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
195 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
196 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
197 db.h files).
198
199 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
200 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
201 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
202 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
203 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
204 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
205 course.
206
207 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
208 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
209 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
210 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
211 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
212 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
213
214 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
215 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
216 do -d+all out of habit.
217
218 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
219 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
220 x86_64 Fedora Core.
221
222 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
223 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
224 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
225 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
226 record types that Exim uses.
227
228 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
229 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
230 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
231 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
232 non-existent file that was broken.
233
234 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
235 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
236
237 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
238 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
239 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
240
241 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
242
243 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
244 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
245 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
246 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
247 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
248 same time.
249
250 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
251 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
252 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
253 at a slight CPU cost.
254
255 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
256 as requested by Marc Sherman.
257
258 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
259 by Marc Sherman.
260
261 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
262
263 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
264 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
265
266
267 Exim version 4.51
268 -----------------
269
270 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
271 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
272
273 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
274
275 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
276
277 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
278 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
279
280 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
281 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
282 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
283 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
284 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
285 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
286 file.
287
288 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
289 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
290 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
291 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
292 these two options.
293
294 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
295 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
296 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
297 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
298 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
299 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
300 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
301 address.
302
303 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
304 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
305
306 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
307 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
308 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
309 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
310 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
311 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
312
313 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
314 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
315 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
316 SMTP commands that take arguments.
317
318 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
319 Finch).
320
321 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
322 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
323
324 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
325 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
326 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
327 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
328 message.
329
330 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
331
332 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
333 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
334
335 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
336 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
337 to what was transported.)
338
339 TF/01 Added $received_time.
340
341 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
342 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
343 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
344 spamd_address settings.
345
346 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
347 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
348 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
349 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
350 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
351
352 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
353
354 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
355 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
356 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
357 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
358 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
359
360 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
361 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
362
363 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
364 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
365 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
366 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
367 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
368 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
369 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
370 for failure.
371
372 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
373 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
374 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
375 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
376 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
377 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
378 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
379 "input=".
380
381 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
382
383 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
384 driver and ACL definitions.
385
386 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
387 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
388
389 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
390 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
391 understands it better than I do:
392
393 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
394 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
395
396 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
397 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
398 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
399 => three warnings about OTP not working
400 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
401
402 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
403 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
404 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
405 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
406 for each call.)
407 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
408 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
409
410 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
411 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
412 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
413
414 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
415 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
416 specified.
417
418 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
419 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
420 "Linux".
421
422 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
423 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
424 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
425
426 warn !verify = sender
427 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
428
429 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
430 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
431
432 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
433
434 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
435 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
436
437 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
438 nomenclature these days.)
439
440 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
441 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
442
443 PH/30 In these circumstances:
444 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
445 . First host does not offer TLS;
446 . First host accepts first address;
447 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
448 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
449 . Second host accepts second address.
450 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
451 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
452 address.
453
454 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
455 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
456 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
457 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
458 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
459
460 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
461 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
462
463 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
464 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
465
466 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
467 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
468 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
469
470 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
471 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
472 overlooked.
473
474 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
475
476 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
477 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
478 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
479 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
480 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
481 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
482 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
483
484 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
485 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
486 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
487 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
488 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
489
490 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
491 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
492 routed further.
493
494 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
495 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
496 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
497 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
498 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
499 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
500
501 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
502
503 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
504 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
505 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
506 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
507 printable escape sequences.
508
509 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
510 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
511 body only.
512
513 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
514 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
515 are as follows:
516
517 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
518 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
519 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
520 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
521 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
522
523 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
524 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
525 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
526
527 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
528
529 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
530 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
531 play with."
532
533 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
534 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
535 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
536 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
537 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
538 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
539 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
540 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
541 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
542 the log output.
543
544 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
545 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
546 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
547 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
548 "make".
549
550
551 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
552 ----------------------------------------
553
554 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
555 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
556 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
557 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
558 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
559 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
560 from 4.43.
561
562 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
563 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
564 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
565 historical information.
566
567
568 Exim version 4.50
569 -----------------
570
571 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
572
573 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
574 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
575
576 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
577 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
578 place.
579
580 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
581 filter fails to execute.
582
583 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
584 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
585 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
586 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
587 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
588
589 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
590
591 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
592 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
593 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
594 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
595
596 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
597 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
598 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
599 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
600 control that does not make sense is encountered.
601
602 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
603
604 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
605
606 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
607 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
608 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
609 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
610
611 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
612 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
613 sender verification.
614
615 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
616 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
617
618 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
619
620 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
621 connection timeout.
622
623 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
624 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
625
626 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
627 the spool by the -Mrm option.
628
629 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
630 information about exactly what failed.
631
632 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
633
634 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
635 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
636 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
637
638 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
639 It is now set to "smtps".
640
641 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
642 ignore_target_hosts.
643
644 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
645 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
646 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
647 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
648 "[x.x.x.x]".
649
650 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
651 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
652 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
653
654 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
655 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
656 wake it up if nothing else does.
657
658 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
659 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
660 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
661 end up negative.
662
663 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
664 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
665
666 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
667
668 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
669 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
670 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
671 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
672 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
673 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
674 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
675 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
676
677 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
678 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
679 than one IP address.
680
681 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
682 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
683 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
684 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
685
686 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
687 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
688 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
689 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
690 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
691 1024 to 2048 bytes.
692
693 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
694 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
695 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
696 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
697
698 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
699 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
700 respected.
701
702 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
703 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
704 $sender_host_address.
705
706 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
707 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
708 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
709 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
710 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
711 very small.
712
713 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
714
715 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
716 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
717
718 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
719 just the host names, not the priorities.
720
721 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
722 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
723 controlled by a keyword.
724
725 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
726 multiple records are returned.
727
728 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
729 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
730 domain.
731
732 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
733
734 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
735 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
736
737 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
738 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
739 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
740
741 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
742
743 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
744
745 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
746
747 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
748 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
749 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
750 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
751 because the tests only now provoked it.
752
753 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
754 (this can affect the format of dates).
755
756 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
757 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
758 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
759 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
760
761 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
762
763 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
764 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
765 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
766 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
767
768 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
769 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
770 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
771
772 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
773 autoreply.
774
775 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
776 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
777 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
778 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
779 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
780 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
781 is going on).
782
783 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
784 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
785 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
786 the line.
787
788 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
789 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
790 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
791
792 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
793 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
794 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
795 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
796 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
797 so I produce this patch..."
798
799 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
800 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
801 is not defined.
802
803 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
804 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
805 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
806 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
807 CAN-2005-0021
808
809 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
810
811 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
812 long debug lines gets shown.
813
814 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
815 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
816
817 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
818
819 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
820 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
821 of $primary_hostname.
822
823 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
824 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
825 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
826 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
827 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
828 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
829 by change 4.50/55 above.
830
831 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
832 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
833 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
834 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
835 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
836 running as the user.
837 CAN-2005-0021
838
839 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
840 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
841 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
842 CAN-2005-0022
843
844 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
845 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
846
847 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
848 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
849 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
850 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
851 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
852
853 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
854 This has been fixed.
855
856 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
857 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
858 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
859 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
860 the caching.)
861
862 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
863
864 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
865 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
866 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
867 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
868
869 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
870 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
871
872 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
873 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
874 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
875
876 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
877 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
878 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
879 message there.
880
881 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
882 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
883 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
884
885 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
886 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
887 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
888 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
889
890 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
891 during host lookups.
892
893 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
894 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
895
896 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
897
898 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
899 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
900 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
901 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
902 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
903 background.
904
905 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
906 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
907
908 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
909 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
910 for the non-SMTP ACL.
911
912 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
913
914 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
915 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
916 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
917 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
918 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
919 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
920 process earlier.
921
922 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
923 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
924 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
925 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
926 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
927
928 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
929 tables).
930
931 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
932
933 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
934 "vacation" handling.
935
936 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
937 OS variants using glibc.
938
939 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
940
941
942 ----------------------------------------------------
943 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
944 ----------------------------------------------------
945
946
947 Exim version 4.44
948 -----------------
949
950 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
951 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
952 transport
953
954 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
955 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
956 place.
957
958 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
959 filter fails to execute.
960
961 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
962 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
963 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
964 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
965 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
966
967 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
968 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
969 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
970 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
971
972 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
973 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
974 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
975 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
976 control that does not make sense is encountered.
977
978 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
979
980 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
981 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
982 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
983 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
984
985 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
986 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
987 sender verification.
988
989 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
990 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
991
992 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
993 the spool by the -Mrm option.
994
995 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
996 ignore_target_hosts.
997
998 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
999 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1000 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1001 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1002 "[x.x.x.x]".
1003
1004 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1005 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1006 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1007
1008 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1009 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1010 wake it up if nothing else does.
1011
1012 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1013 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1014 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1015 end up negative.
1016
1017 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1018 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1019
1020 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1021
1022 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1023 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1024 empty pattern.
1025
1026 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1027 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1028 one IP address.
1029
1030 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1031 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1032 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1033 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1034 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1035 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1036
1037 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1038 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1039 respected.
1040
1041 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1042 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1043 $sender_host_address.
1044
1045 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1046
1047 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1048 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1049 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1050
1051 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1052 As per change 25.
1053
1054 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1055 (this can affect the format of dates).
1056
1057 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1058 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1059 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1060 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1061
1062 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1063 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1064 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1065
1066 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1067 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1068 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1069 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1070
1071 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1072 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1073 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1074
1075 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1076 autoreply.
1077
1078 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1079 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1080 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1081 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1082 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1083 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1084 is going on).
1085
1086 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1087 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1088 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1089 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1090 CAN-2005-0021
1091
1092 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1093 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1094 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1095 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1096 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1097 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1098 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1099
1100 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1101 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1102 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1103 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1104 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1105 running as the user.
1106 CAN-2005-0021
1107
1108 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1109 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1110 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1111 CAN-2005-0022
1112
1113 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1114 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1115 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1116 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1117 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1118
1119 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1120 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1121 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1122 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1123 the caching.)
1124
1125 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1126 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1127 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1128 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1129 because the tests only now provoked it.
1130
1131
1132 Exim version 4.43
1133 -----------------
1134
1135 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1136 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1137 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1138 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1139 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1140 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1141 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1142
1143 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1144 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1145 the delivery.
1146
1147 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1148
1149 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1150
1151 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1152 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1153 to local_scan().
1154
1155 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1156 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1157 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1158 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1159 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1160
1161 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1162 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1163
1164 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1165
1166 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1167
1168 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1169 header_sender only.
1170
1171 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1172 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1173
1174 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1175 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1176 affecting debugging statements).
1177
1178 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1179
1180 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1181 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1182 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1183 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1184 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1185 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1186 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1187 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1188 after the received time, and all would be well.
1189
1190 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1191 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1192 condition in an expansion string.
1193
1194 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1195
1196 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1197 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1198 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1199 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1200 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1201 job under whatever limits there are.
1202
1203 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1204
1205 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1206 space).
1207
1208 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1209 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1210 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1211 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1212 return path is set.
1213
1214 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1215 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1216 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1217 binary data in such strings.
1218
1219 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1220
1221 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1222 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1223 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1224 failure, which is pointless.
1225
1226 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1227
1228 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1229
1230 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1231 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1232 Sender: header lines.
1233
1234 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1235 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1236 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1237
1238 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1239 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1240 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1241 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1242 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1243 happens.
1244
1245 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1246 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1247 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1248 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1249 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1250
1251 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1252 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1253 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1254 1024.
1255
1256 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1257 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1258
1259 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1260 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1261
1262 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1263
1264 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1265
1266 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1267
1268 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1269 syntax error.
1270
1271 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1272
1273 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1274
1275 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1276 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1277 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1278 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1279
1280 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1281 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1282
1283
1284 Exim version 4.42
1285 -----------------
1286
1287 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1288 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1289 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1290 it was not quoted.
1291 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1292 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1293 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1294 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1295 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1296 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1297
1298 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1299 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1300 verification failure".
1301
1302 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1303 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1304 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1305 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1306
1307 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1308 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1309 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1310 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1311 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1312 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1313 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1314 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1315 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1316 treated as a timeout.
1317
1318 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1319 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1320 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1321 not set for Exim filters).
1322
1323 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1324 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1325 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1326
1327 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1328
1329 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1330 try to make them clearer.
1331
1332 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1333 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1334
1335 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1336
1337 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1338
1339 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1340 only the Cygwin environment.
1341
1342 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1343 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1344 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1345 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1346 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1347
1348 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1349 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1350 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1351 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1352 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1353 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1354 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1355
1356 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1357 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1358
1359 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1360
1361 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1362 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1363 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1364
1365 To: susanne@some.where
1366
1367 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1368 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1369 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1370 of addresses in From: header lines).
1371
1372 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1373 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1374 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1375
1376 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1377 treated as non-personal.
1378
1379 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1380 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1381
1382 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1383
1384 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1385
1386 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1387 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1388 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1389
1390 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1391 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1392
1393 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1394 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1395 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1396 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1397 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1398 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1399
1400 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1401 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1402 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1403 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1404 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1405 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1406 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1407 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1408
1409 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1410
1411 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1412 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1413
1414 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1415 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1416 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1417
1418 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1419 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1420
1421 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1422 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1423 rather than long int.
1424
1425 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1426
1427 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1428
1429
1430 Exim version 4.41
1431 -----------------
1432
1433 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1434 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1435 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1436 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1437 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1438 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1439
1440
1441 Exim version 4.40
1442 -----------------
1443
1444 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1445 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1446
1447 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1448 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1449 socklen_t is defined.
1450
1451 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1452 always exist.
1453
1454 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1455 configured.
1456
1457 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1458 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1459 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1460 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1461 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1462
1463 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1464 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1465 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1466 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1467
1468 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1469 of flapping under certain conditions.
1470
1471 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1472 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1473 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1474
1475 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1476
1477 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1478
1479 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1480 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1481 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1482 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1483
1484 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1485 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1486 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1487 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1488 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1489 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1490 preserved with the message after it was received.
1491
1492 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1493 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1494 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1495 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1496 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1497 test suite worked just fine.
1498
1499 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1500 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1501 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1502
1503 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1504 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1505 string.
1506
1507 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1508 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1509 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1510 does not fully solve it.
1511
1512 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1513 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1514 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1515 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1516 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1517
1518 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1519 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1520 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1521
1522 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1523 string, for example:
1524
1525 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1526
1527 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1528 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1529 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1530 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1531 the routers could not see them.
1532
1533 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1534 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1535
1536 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1537 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1538 output).
1539
1540 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1541 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1542 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1543 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1544 that needed quoting.
1545
1546 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1547 was not being matched caselessly.
1548
1549 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1550 backslashes.
1551
1552 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1553 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1554 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1555 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1556 when use_sender is false.
1557
1558 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1559
1560 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1561
1562 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1563
1564 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1565 the configuration file.
1566
1567 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1568 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1569
1570 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1571
1572 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1573 bytes in the message body.
1574
1575 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1576 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1577 delivery.
1578
1579 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1580
1581 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1582
1583 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1584 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1585 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1586 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1587 another IP address.
1588
1589
1590 Exim version 4.34
1591 -----------------
1592
1593 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1594 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1595
1596 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1597 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1598 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1599 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1600 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1601
1602 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1603 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1604
1605 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1606 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1607 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1608
1609 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1610 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1611 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1612
1613 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1614 for routers.
1615
1616 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1617 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1618 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1619 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1620 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1621 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1622 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1623
1624
1625 Exim version 4.33
1626 -----------------
1627
1628 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1629 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1630 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1631 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1632 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1633 default (and expected) setting.
1634
1635 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1636 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1637 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1638 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1639
1640 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1641 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1642
1643 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1644 in domain lists.
1645
1646 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1647 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1648 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1649 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1650 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1651 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1652
1653 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1654 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1655 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1656
1657 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1658 part (NOT match_host).
1659
1660 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1661
1662 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1663 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1664 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1665 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1666 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1667 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1668 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1669 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1670 the same named file.
1671
1672 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1673 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1674 when Exim is built.
1675
1676 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1677 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1678 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1679 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1680 a host name.
1681
1682 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1683 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1684 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1685
1686 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1687
1688 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1689
1690 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1691
1692 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1693 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1694
1695 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1696 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1697 before starting the TLS session.
1698
1699 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1700
1701 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1702 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1703
1704 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1705 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1706 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1707 colon in the middle).
1708
1709
1710 Exim version 4.32
1711 -----------------
1712
1713 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1714 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1715 multiple configurations are in use.
1716
1717 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1718 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1719 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1720 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1721 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1722 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1723
1724 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1725 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1726
1727 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1728 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1729 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1730
1731 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1732 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1733 occurs.
1734
1735 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1736 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1737
1738 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1739
1740 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1741 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1742
1743 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1744
1745 -prval:sval
1746
1747 is equivalent to
1748
1749 -oMr rval -oMs sval
1750
1751 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1752 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1753 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1754 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1755 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1756
1757 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1758 Exim's behaviour:
1759
1760 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1761 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1762 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1763 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1764 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1765 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1766
1767 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1768 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1769 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1770 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1771 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1772 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1773 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1774 string.
1775
1776 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1777 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1778 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1779 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1780 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1781
1782 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1783
1784 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1785 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1786 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1787
1788 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1789
1790 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1791 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1792 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1793 information.
1794
1795 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1796 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1797
1798 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1799 Three changes have been made:
1800
1801 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1802 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1803 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1804 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1805 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1806
1807 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1808 been restored.
1809
1810 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1811 the modified behaviour.
1812
1813
1814 Exim version 4.31
1815 -----------------
1816
1817 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1818 Larry Rosenman.
1819
1820 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1821 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1822
1823 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1824 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1825 try to track down a specific problem.
1826
1827 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1828 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1829 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1830
1831 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1832 warning.
1833
1834 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1835 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1836 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1837 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1838 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1839 some earlier ones do not.
1840
1841 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1842
1843 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1844 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1845 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1846 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1847 address literals are enabled, of course).
1848
1849 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1850
1851 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1852 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1853 by a command such as
1854
1855 exim -f "" ...
1856
1857 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1858
1859 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1860
1861 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1862 remained set. It is now erased.
1863
1864 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1865 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1866
1867 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1868 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1869 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1870 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1871 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1872 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1873 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1874 appropriate error code.
1875
1876 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1877 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1878 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1879 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1880 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1881 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1882
1883 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1884 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1885 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1886
1887 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1888 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1889 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1890 terminate the header.
1891
1892 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1893 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1894 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1895
1896 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1897 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1898 (4.30/29). In particular:
1899
1900 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1901 imposed.
1902
1903 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1904 to write a maildirsize file.
1905
1906 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1907 the transport, the new value overrides.
1908
1909 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1910 count.
1911
1912 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1913 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1914 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1915 space or a tab.
1916
1917 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1918 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1919 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1920 the fallback hosts.
1921
1922 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1923 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1924 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1925
1926 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1927 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1928 using a union.
1929
1930 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1931 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1932 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1933
1934 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1935
1936 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1937
1938 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1939
1940 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1941 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1942 become corrupted.
1943
1944 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1945 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1946 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1947 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1948 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1949 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1950 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1951 too great.
1952
1953 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1954 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1955 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1956 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1957 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1958 incorrectly.
1959
1960 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1961 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1962 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1963 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1964 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1965 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1966 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1967 cached value only when the same options are set.
1968
1969 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1970
1971 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1972 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1973 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1974 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1975 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1976
1977 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1978 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1979 it is clearly obsolete.
1980
1981 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1982 transport.
1983
1984 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1985 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1986 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1987 times.
1988
1989 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1990 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1991 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1992 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1993 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1994
1995 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1996 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1997 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1998 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1999
2000 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2001
2002 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2003
2004 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2005 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2006 2^31.
2007
2008 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2009 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2010 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2011 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2012 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2013 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2014 $localpart_data.
2015
2016 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2017 with the -f command-line option.
2018
2019 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2020 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2021 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2022 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2023 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2024 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2025
2026 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2027 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2028 line.
2029
2030 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2031 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2032 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2033 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2034 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2035 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2036 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2037 buffer is too small.
2038
2039 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2040 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2041
2042 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2043 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2044 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2045 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2046 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2047 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2048 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2049 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2050 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2051
2052 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2053 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2054 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2055
2056 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2057 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2058 ACL").
2059
2060 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2061 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2062 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2063 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2064 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2065
2066 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2067 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2068 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2069 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2070 is set.
2071
2072 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2073
2074 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2075
2076 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2077 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2078
2079 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2080 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2081 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2082
2083 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2084 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2085 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2086 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2087 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2088
2089 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2090 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2091 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2092 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2093 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2094 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2095 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2096
2097 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2098 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2099 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2100 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2101 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2102 the test of how many are available.
2103
2104 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2105 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2106 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2107 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2108 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2109 new message is started.
2110
2111 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2112 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2113
2114 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2115 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2116
2117 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2118 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2119 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2120 is no long logged.
2121
2122 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2123 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2124 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2125 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2126 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2127 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2128 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2129
2130 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2131 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2132 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2133 interpreted as octal.
2134
2135 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2136 setting.
2137
2138 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2139 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2140 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2141 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2142 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2143 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2144
2145 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2146 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2147 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2148 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2149
2150 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2151 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2152 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2153 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2154
2155 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2156 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2157 is a bug fix.
2158
2159 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2160 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2161
2162 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2163
2164 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2165 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2166 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2167 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2168
2169 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2170 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2171 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2172 supplied", which is not helpful.
2173
2174 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2175 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2176 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2177
2178 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2179 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2180 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2181 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2182 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2183 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2184 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2185 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2186
2187 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2188 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2189 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2190 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2191 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2192
2193 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2194 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2195 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2196 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2197 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2198 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2199
2200 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2201 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2202 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2203
2204 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2205
2206 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2207 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2208 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2209 variables.
2210
2211 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2212
2213 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2214 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2215 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2216 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2217 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2218 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2219 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2220 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2221
2222 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2223 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2224 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2225 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2226 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2227
2228 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2229 Haardt.
2230
2231 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2232 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2233 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2234 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2235 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2236 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2237 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2238 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2239 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2240
2241
2242 Exim version 4.30
2243 -----------------
2244
2245 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2246 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2247 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2248
2249 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2250 fixed.
2251
2252 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2253 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2254 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2255
2256 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2257 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2258 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2259 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2260 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2261 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2262
2263 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2264 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2265 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2266 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2267 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2268 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2269 the Exim test suite.
2270
2271 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2272 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2273 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2274 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2275
2276 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2277 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2278 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2279 specify it in this variable.
2280
2281 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2282 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2283 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2284 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2285
2286 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2287 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2288 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2289 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2290
2291 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2292 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2293 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2294 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2295 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2296
2297 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2298
2299 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2300 they are logged.
2301
2302 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2303 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2304 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2305 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2306 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2307
2308 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2309 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2310
2311 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2312 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2313 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2314 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2315 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2316
2317 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2318 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2319
2320 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2321 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2322 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2323
2324 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2325 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2326
2327 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2328 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2329
2330 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2331 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2332 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2333
2334 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2335 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2336
2337 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2338 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2339 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2340 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2341
2342 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2343
2344 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2345 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2346 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2347 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2348
2349 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2350
2351 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2352 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2353
2354 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2355
2356 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2357 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2358 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2359 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2360 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2361 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2362
2363 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2364
2365 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2366 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2367 this.
2368
2369 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2370
2371 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2372 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2373
2374 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2375 550 Sender verify failed
2376
2377 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2378 the final line of the response.
2379
2380 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2381 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2382 all other user lookups.
2383
2384 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2385 delivery time.
2386
2387 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2388 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2389 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2390 result into an int without checking.
2391
2392 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2393 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2394 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2395
2396 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2397 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2398 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2399 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2400
2401 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2402 correctly.
2403
2404 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2405 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2406
2407 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2408 to the empty sender.
2409
2410 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2411 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2412 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2413 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2414 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2415 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2416 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2417 panic log.
2418
2419 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2420 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2421 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2422 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2423 used.
2424
2425 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2426 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2427
2428 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2429 timestamps.
2430
2431 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2432 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2433
2434 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2435
2436 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2437 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2438 logs.
2439
2440 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2441 as soon as it is encountered.
2442
2443 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2444
2445 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2446 rewritten to "<>".
2447
2448 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2449 recognizes a tab character.
2450
2451 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2452 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2453 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2454 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2455
2456 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2457
2458 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2459 crash.
2460
2461 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2462
2463 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2464
2465 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2466 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2467 2822.
2468
2469 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2470 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2471 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2472 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2473 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2474
2475 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2476 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2477
2478 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2479 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2480 list (.included file names were always shown).
2481
2482 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2483 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2484 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2485 root at that time.
2486
2487 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2488 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2489
2490 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2491
2492 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2493
2494 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2495
2496 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2497 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2498 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2499 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2500 failures to open the logs.
2501
2502 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2503 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2504 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2505 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2506 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2507 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2508 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2509
2510
2511 Exim version 4.24
2512 -----------------
2513
2514 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2515 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2516 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2517 change 4.23/1.
2518
2519 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2520 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2521 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2522
2523 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2524 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2525 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2526
2527 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2528 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2529 causing some misleading effects.
2530
2531 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2532 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2533 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2534
2535 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2536 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2537 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2538 queue-runner function directly.
2539
2540
2541 Exim version 4.23
2542 -----------------
2543
2544 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2545 HEADERS_CHARSET.
2546
2547 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2548 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2549 was always written to the default place.
2550
2551 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2552 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2553 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2554
2555 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2556
2557 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2558
2559 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2560 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2561 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2562
2563 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2564 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2565 must start.
2566
2567 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2568 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2569 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2570
2571 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2572 command line option is disabled.
2573
2574 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2575 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2576
2577 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2578
2579 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2580
2581 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2582 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2583
2584 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2585
2586 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2587 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2588 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2589 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2590 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2591 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2592
2593 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2594 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2595 timeout.
2596
2597 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2598 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2599
2600 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2601 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2602
2603 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2604 received was valid base64.
2605
2606 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2607 name of the variable that was being set.
2608
2609 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2610
2611 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2612 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2613 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2614 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2615 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2616 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2617
2618 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2619
2620 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2621 nor realm was specified.
2622
2623 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2624 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2625 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2626 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2627
2628 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2629 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2630 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2631
2632 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2633 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2634 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2635
2636 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2637 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2638 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2639 some systems use these upper case variants.
2640
2641 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2642 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2643 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2644 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2645
2646 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2647
2648 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2649 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2650
2651 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2652 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2653 expansion variable.
2654
2655 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2656
2657 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2658 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2659 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2660 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2661
2662 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2663 using it.
2664
2665 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2666 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2667 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2668
2669 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2670 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2671
2672 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2673 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2674 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2675 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2676
2677 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2678 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2679 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2680
2681 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2682
2683 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2684 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2685 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2686 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2687 aborted.
2688
2689 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2690 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2691 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2692
2693 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2694
2695 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2696 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2697
2698 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2699 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2700
2701 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2702 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2703 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2704 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2705 when emails are that large.
2706
2707
2708
2709 Exim version 4.22
2710 -----------------
2711
2712 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2713 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2714
2715 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2716 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2717 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2718
2719 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2720 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2721 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2722
2723 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2724 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2725 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2726 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2727 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2728
2729 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2730 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2731 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2732 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2733 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2734 ever.
2735
2736 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2737 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2738 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2739 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2740 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2741 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2742 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2743 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2744 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2745 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2746 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2747 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2748 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2749 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2750
2751 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2752 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2753 parameterised it.
2754
2755 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2756 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2757 error should be diagnosed.
2758
2759 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2760 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2761 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2762 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2763 appeared instead of "NULL".
2764
2765 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2766 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2767 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2768 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2769 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2770 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2771 proceeds).
2772
2773 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2774 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2775 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2776
2777
2778 Exim version 4.21
2779 -----------------
2780
2781 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2782 or receiver verification errors.
2783
2784 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2785 name.
2786
2787 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2788 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2789 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2790 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2791
2792 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2793 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2794 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2795 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2796 shouldn't happen again.
2797
2798 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2799 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2800 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2801
2802 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2803 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2804
2805 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2806
2807 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2808 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2809
2810 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2811 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2812 RFC.
2813
2814 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2815 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2816 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2817
2818 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2819 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2820 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2821 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2822
2823 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2824 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2825 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2826 to define what should happen).
2827
2828 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2829 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2830 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2831
2832 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2833
2834 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2835
2836 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2837 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2838
2839 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2840 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2841 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2842 structure in all cases.
2843
2844 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2845 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2846 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2847 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2848
2849 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2850 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2851 domain name.
2852
2853 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2854 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2855
2856 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2857 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2858
2859 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2860 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2861 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2862
2863 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2864 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2865 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2866
2867 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2868 the book and for uniformity.
2869
2870 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2871
2872 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2873 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2874 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2875 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2876 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2877 non-existent command as the problem.
2878
2879 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2880 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2881 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2882
2883 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2884
2885 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2886 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2887 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2888
2889 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2890 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2891 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2892 timestamps using strftime().
2893
2894 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2895 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2896
2897 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2898 transport-time rewrites.
2899
2900 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2901 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2902 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2903 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2904
2905 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2906 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2907
2908 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2909 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2910 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2911 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2912 comma and a space.
2913
2914 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2915 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2916 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2917 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2918 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2919 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2920 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2921
2922 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2923 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2924 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2925 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2926 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2927
2928 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2929 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2930 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2931 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2932 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2933 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2934 remaining text gets split now.
2935
2936 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2937 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2938 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2939 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2940
2941 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2942 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2943 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2944 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2945 $return_path.
2946
2947 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2948 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2949 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2950 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2951 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2952 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2953 passed through if needed.
2954
2955 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2956 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2957 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2958 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2959 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2960 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2961
2962 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2963 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2964 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2965 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2966 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2967
2968 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2969 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2970 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2971 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2972 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2973
2974 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2975 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2976 noticed.
2977
2978 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2979 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2980 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2981 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2982 mayhem of various kinds.
2983
2984 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2985 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2986 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2987 the right test for positive values.
2988
2989 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2990 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2991 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2992 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2993 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2994 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2995 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2996 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2997 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2998 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2999 envelope.
3000
3001 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3002 module.
3003
3004 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3005 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3006 forbidding it.
3007
3008 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3009 the existing equality matching.
3010
3011 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3012 dealing with inode numbers.
3013
3014 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3015 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3016 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3017
3018 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3019 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3020 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3021 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3022 local_scan().
3023
3024 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3025 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3026 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3027 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3028 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3029 relay addresses has also been removed.
3030
3031 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3032
3033 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3034 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3035 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3036
3037 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3038 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3039 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3040 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3041 processing applies to CR:
3042
3043 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3044 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3045
3046 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3047 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3048 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3049 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3050
3051 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3052 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3053 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3054
3055 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3056 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3057 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3058 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3059 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3060 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3061 arisen.
3062
3063 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3064 program routers.
3065
3066 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3067 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3068 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3069 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3070 adds:
3071
3072 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3073
3074 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3075
3076 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3077
3078 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3079 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3080 not considered personal.
3081
3082 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3083
3084 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3085
3086 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3087
3088 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3089 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3090 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3091 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3092 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3093 header lines, and spool format errors.
3094
3095 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3096 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3097 for more flexibility.
3098
3099 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3100 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3101 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3102
3103 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3104 Sabourenkov.
3105
3106 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3107 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3108 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3109 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3110 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3111 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3112 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3113 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3114 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3115
3116 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3117 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3118 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3119 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3120 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3121 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3122 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3123
3124 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3125 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3126 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3127
3128 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3129 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3130 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3131 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3132 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3133 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3134 instead of killing the process with assert().
3135
3136 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3137 than Unicode encoding.
3138
3139 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3140 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3141 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3142 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3143
3144 77. Added process_log_path.
3145
3146 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3147 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3148
3149 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3150 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3151
3152 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3153 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3154 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3155
3156 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3157 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3158 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3159 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3160 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3161 were applied:
3162
3163 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3164 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3165 as invalid.
3166
3167 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3168 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3169 they will be used during message reception.
3170
3171
3172 Exim version 4.20
3173 -----------------
3174
3175 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
3176
3177 ****