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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
10 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
11 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
12 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
15 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
16 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
17 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
19 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
20 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
21 hence the _LINUX specificness.
23 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
24 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
25 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
28 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
29 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
30 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
31 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
32 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
33 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
34 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
35 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
36 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
37 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
38 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
40 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
43 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
44 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
45 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
46 ignores EPIPE as well.
48 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
49 (quoted-printable decoding).
51 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
52 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
54 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
56 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
58 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
60 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
61 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
63 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
66 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
67 miscellaneous code fixes
69 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
72 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
73 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
74 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
75 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
76 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
77 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
78 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
79 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
81 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
82 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
83 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
84 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
86 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
87 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
88 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
89 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
90 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
91 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
92 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
93 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
94 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
96 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
99 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
100 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
101 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
102 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
103 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
104 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
105 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
106 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
108 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
109 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
112 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
113 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
114 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
115 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
116 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
117 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
118 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
119 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
120 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
121 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
122 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
123 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
124 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
126 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
127 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
128 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
129 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
130 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
131 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
132 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
134 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
135 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
136 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
137 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
138 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
139 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
140 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
141 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
142 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
143 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
145 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
146 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
147 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
148 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
149 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
151 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
152 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
153 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
154 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
155 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
156 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
157 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
159 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
160 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
161 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
162 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
163 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
164 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
167 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
168 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
169 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
172 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
173 if any retry times were supplied.
175 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
176 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
177 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
179 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
181 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
183 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
184 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
185 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
186 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
187 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
190 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
191 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
193 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
194 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
195 committing the later change.]
197 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
198 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
199 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
200 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
201 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
202 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
203 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
204 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
205 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
207 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
208 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
209 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
210 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
211 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
212 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
213 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
214 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
215 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
217 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
218 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
219 hammering the server.
221 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
222 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
224 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
226 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
227 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
228 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
230 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
231 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
232 one case where this was not true.
234 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
235 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
236 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
237 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
240 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
241 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
242 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
243 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
244 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
245 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
246 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
247 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
248 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
251 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
252 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
253 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
254 same for both kinds of LMTP.
256 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
257 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
259 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
260 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
261 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
263 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
265 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
267 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
269 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
270 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
271 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
272 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
274 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
275 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
277 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
278 be meaningful with "accept".
284 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
285 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
287 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
288 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
289 there is data to show.
290 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
292 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
293 as the number of messages in eximstats.
295 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
296 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
298 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
299 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
301 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
302 submissions from trusted users.
304 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
305 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
307 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
308 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
309 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
310 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
311 there is now a framework to start from.
313 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
314 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
315 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
317 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
319 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
321 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
323 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
324 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
325 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
327 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
330 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
331 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
332 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
334 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
335 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
336 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
339 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
340 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
341 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
342 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
343 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
345 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
346 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
348 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
350 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
351 operations in malware.c.
353 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
356 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
357 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
358 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
361 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
362 statements to "add_header".
364 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
365 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
367 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
368 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
371 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
375 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
376 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
377 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
380 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
381 don't think Precedence: ever was.
383 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
384 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
386 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
387 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
388 any possible encoding problems.
390 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
391 but not after initializing Perl.
393 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
394 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
395 apparently, which is not desirable.
397 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
400 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
403 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
405 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
406 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
407 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
408 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
410 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
411 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
412 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
414 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
415 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
416 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
419 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
420 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
421 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
422 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
423 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
429 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
430 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
432 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
435 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
436 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
437 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
438 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
439 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
440 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
441 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
442 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
445 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
447 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
448 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
449 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
451 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
452 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
453 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
456 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
457 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
459 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
460 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
461 option (which defaults to 0600).
463 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
465 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
466 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
467 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
468 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
469 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
470 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
471 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
473 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
479 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
480 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
481 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
482 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
483 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
484 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
487 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
488 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
490 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
492 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
493 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
494 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
495 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
496 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
499 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
500 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
502 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
503 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
504 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
505 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
506 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
508 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
509 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
510 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
511 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
513 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
514 be the same on different OS.
516 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
519 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
520 whether --show-vars was specified or not
522 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
525 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
526 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
527 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
528 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
529 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
530 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
533 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
534 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
535 when Exim was called.
537 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
538 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
540 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
541 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
542 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
543 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
545 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
546 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
547 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
548 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
551 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
552 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
553 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
555 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
556 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
557 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
559 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
562 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
563 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
564 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
565 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
566 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
567 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
568 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
569 values from the SRV records were lost.
571 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
572 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
573 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
575 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
576 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
577 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
579 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
580 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
581 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
582 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
583 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
584 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
585 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
586 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
587 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
588 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
590 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
591 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
592 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
594 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
595 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
597 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
598 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
599 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
600 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
603 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
604 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
605 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
607 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
608 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
611 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
612 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
613 (for which there is an explicit test).
615 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
617 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
618 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
619 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
620 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
621 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
623 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
624 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
625 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
626 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
628 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
629 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
630 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
632 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
634 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
636 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
637 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
638 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
640 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
641 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
642 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
643 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
644 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
646 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
647 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
648 the message gets confusing).
650 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
651 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
652 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
653 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
655 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
656 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
657 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
658 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
661 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
662 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
663 the different processes.
665 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
667 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
669 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
670 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
672 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
673 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
675 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
676 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
677 messages matching specified criteria.
679 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
681 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
682 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
684 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
685 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
686 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
687 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
688 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
689 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
690 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
691 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
692 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
693 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
695 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
696 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
697 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
699 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
701 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
702 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
703 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
704 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
705 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
706 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
707 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
710 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
711 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
713 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
715 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
717 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
719 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
720 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
721 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
722 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
723 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
724 size of the count of files.
726 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
728 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
731 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
732 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
733 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
734 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
736 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
737 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
738 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
740 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
741 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
742 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
743 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
744 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
746 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
747 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
749 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
750 will now be deprecated.
752 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
754 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
755 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
756 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
758 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
759 with very large, slow to parse queues
761 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
763 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
765 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
766 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
767 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
770 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
771 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
772 Sieve code now uses this.
774 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
775 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
777 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
778 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
780 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
782 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
783 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
784 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
785 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
786 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
788 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
789 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
790 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
791 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
793 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
795 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
797 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
798 is preferred over IPv4.
800 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
801 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
802 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
803 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
804 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
805 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
806 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
808 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
809 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
810 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
812 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
814 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
815 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
816 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
817 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
818 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
819 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
820 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
821 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
822 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
823 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
824 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
826 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
827 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
828 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
834 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
836 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
837 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
839 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
840 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
841 statements are most likely to be submissions.
843 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
845 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
848 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
851 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
852 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
853 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
856 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
857 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
859 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
860 inside the third argument.
862 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
863 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
866 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
867 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
869 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
870 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
872 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
874 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
875 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
878 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
880 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
881 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
882 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
883 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
884 identical. For example:
886 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
888 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
889 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
890 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
892 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
893 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
894 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
895 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
897 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
898 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
899 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
902 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
904 o fixes some comments
905 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
906 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
907 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
908 and documents the missing references header update
912 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
913 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
916 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
917 Electronic Mail") by including:
919 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
921 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
922 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
923 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
924 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
925 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
927 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
929 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
931 The auto-replied keyword:
933 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
934 message by an automatic process,
936 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
938 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
939 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
941 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
942 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
945 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
946 to the default Received: header definition.
948 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
950 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
951 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
952 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
954 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
955 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
956 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
958 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
959 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
960 and treats the condition as false.
962 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
964 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
965 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
966 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
967 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
968 not changing the active code.
970 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
971 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
973 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
974 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
976 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
979 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
980 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
981 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
982 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
983 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
984 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
985 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
986 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
989 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
990 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
991 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
992 The same fix has been applied.
998 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
999 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1002 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1003 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1005 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1007 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1008 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1009 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1010 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1011 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1013 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1014 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1015 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1016 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1019 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1027 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1028 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1030 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1032 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1034 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1035 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1036 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1038 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1039 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1040 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1042 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1043 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1046 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1047 ${stat: expansion item.
1049 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1050 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1052 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1053 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1056 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1058 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1061 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1062 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1064 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1066 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1067 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1068 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1069 the end of the subprocess.
1071 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1072 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1073 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1074 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1075 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1077 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1079 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1081 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1082 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1084 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1086 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1088 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1089 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1092 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1094 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1095 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1096 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1098 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1099 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1101 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1102 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1104 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1105 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1107 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1108 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1110 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1111 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1112 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1113 contributed by a Radius user.
1115 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1116 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1118 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1119 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1121 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1124 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1125 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1128 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1129 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1130 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1131 header lines when this was not necessary.
1133 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1135 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1136 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1137 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1140 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1143 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1144 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1145 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1146 return code was incorrect.
1148 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1150 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1152 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1154 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1156 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1157 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1158 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1159 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1160 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1163 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1165 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1166 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1167 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1168 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1169 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1170 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1171 which is clearly wrong.
1173 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1175 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1176 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1177 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1180 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1181 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1183 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1185 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1186 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1188 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1189 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1191 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1192 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1194 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1195 recipients, not senders.
1197 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1198 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1200 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1202 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1204 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1205 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1206 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1207 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1209 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1211 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1212 clock is set back in time.
1214 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1215 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1217 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1218 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1220 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1221 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1224 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1225 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1228 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1231 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1233 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1234 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1235 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1237 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1238 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1239 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1240 helo verification defer as a failure.
1242 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1243 actual error message.
1249 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1251 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1252 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1253 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1254 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1256 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1258 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1259 can still be requested.
1261 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1262 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1263 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1264 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1266 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1267 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1268 circumstances, but probably never did.
1270 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1271 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1272 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1275 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1277 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1278 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
1280 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1282 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1284 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1285 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1286 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1287 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1288 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1289 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
1291 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1292 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1293 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1294 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1295 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1296 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1298 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1299 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1301 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1302 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1304 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1305 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1307 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1309 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1311 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1313 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1315 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1317 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1319 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1321 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1322 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1323 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1325 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1326 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1327 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1328 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1330 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1331 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1332 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1334 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1335 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1336 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1337 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1339 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1340 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1343 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1344 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1345 should work with maildirs and everything.
1347 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1348 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1350 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1353 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1354 function for BDB 4.3.
1356 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1358 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1359 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1362 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1363 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1364 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
1365 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1366 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1367 formatting function string_vformat().
1369 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1370 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1371 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1372 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1373 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1374 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1375 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1376 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1378 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1379 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1382 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1383 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1385 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1386 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1387 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1388 test. It is now used for both.
1390 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1391 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1392 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1393 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1394 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1395 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1397 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1398 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1399 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1402 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1403 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1404 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
1406 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1407 experimental DomainKeys support:
1409 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1410 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1411 the control was given.
1413 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1415 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1417 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1419 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1420 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1421 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1424 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
1425 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1426 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1427 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1428 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1429 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1432 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1433 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1434 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1435 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1436 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1437 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1439 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1440 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1441 do -d+all out of habit.
1443 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1444 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1447 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1448 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1449 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1450 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1451 record types that Exim uses.
1453 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1454 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1455 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1456 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1457 non-existent file that was broken.
1459 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1460 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1462 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1463 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1464 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1466 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1468 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1469 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1470 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1471 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1472 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1475 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1476 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1477 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1478 at a slight CPU cost.
1480 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1481 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1483 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1486 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1488 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1489 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1495 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1496 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1498 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1500 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1502 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1503 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1505 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1506 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1507 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1508 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1509 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1510 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1513 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1514 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1515 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1516 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1519 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1520 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1521 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1522 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1523 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1524 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1525 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
1528 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1529 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1531 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1532 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1533 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1534 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1535 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1536 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1538 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1539 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1540 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1541 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1543 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1546 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1547 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
1549 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1550 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
1551 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1552 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1555 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1557 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1558 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1560 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1561 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1562 to what was transported.)
1564 TF/01 Added $received_time.
1566 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1567 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1568 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1569 spamd_address settings.
1571 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1572 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1573 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1574 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1575 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1577 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1579 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1580 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1581 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1582 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1583 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1585 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1586 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1588 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1589 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1590 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1591 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1592 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1593 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1594 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1597 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1598 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1599 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1600 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1601 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1602 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1603 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1606 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1608 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1609 driver and ACL definitions.
1611 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1612 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1614 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1615 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1616 understands it better than I do:
1618 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1619 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1621 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1622 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1623 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1624 => three warnings about OTP not working
1625 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1627 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1628 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1629 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1630 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1632 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1633 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1635 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1636 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1637 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1639 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1640 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1643 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1644 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1647 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1648 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1649 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1651 warn !verify = sender
1652 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1654 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1655 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1657 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1659 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1660 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1662 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1663 nomenclature these days.)
1665 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1666 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1668 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1669 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1670 . First host does not offer TLS;
1671 . First host accepts first address;
1672 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1673 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1674 . Second host accepts second address.
1675 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1676 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1679 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1680 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1681 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1682 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1683 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1685 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1686 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1688 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1689 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1691 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1692 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1693 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1695 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1696 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1699 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1701 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1702 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1703 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1704 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1705 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1706 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1707 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1709 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1710 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1711 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1712 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1713 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1715 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1716 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1719 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1720 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1721 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1722 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1723 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1724 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1726 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1728 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1729 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1730 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1731 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1732 printable escape sequences.
1734 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1735 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1738 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1739 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1742 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1743 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1744 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1745 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1746 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1748 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1749 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1750 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1752 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1754 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1755 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1758 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1759 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1760 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1761 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1762 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1763 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1764 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1765 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1766 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1769 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1770 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1771 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1772 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1776 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1777 ----------------------------------------
1779 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1780 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1781 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1782 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1783 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1784 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1787 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1788 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1789 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1790 historical information.
1796 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1798 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1799 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1801 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1802 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1805 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1806 filter fails to execute.
1808 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1809 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1810 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1811 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1812 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1814 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1816 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1817 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1818 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1819 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1821 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1822 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1823 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1824 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1825 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1827 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1829 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1831 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1832 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1833 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1834 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1836 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1837 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1838 sender verification.
1840 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1841 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1843 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1845 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1848 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1849 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1851 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1852 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1854 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1855 information about exactly what failed.
1857 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1859 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1860 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1861 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1863 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1864 It is now set to "smtps".
1866 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1867 ignore_target_hosts.
1869 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1870 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1871 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1872 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1875 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1876 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1877 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1879 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1880 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1881 wake it up if nothing else does.
1883 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1884 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1885 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1888 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1889 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1891 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1893 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1894 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1895 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1896 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1897 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1898 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1899 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1900 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1902 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1903 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1904 than one IP address.
1906 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1907 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1908 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1909 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1911 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1912 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1913 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1914 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1915 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1918 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1919 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1920 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1921 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1923 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1924 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1927 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1928 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1929 $sender_host_address.
1931 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1932 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1933 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1934 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1935 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1938 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1940 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1941 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1943 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1944 just the host names, not the priorities.
1946 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
1947 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1948 controlled by a keyword.
1950 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
1951 multiple records are returned.
1953 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1954 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1957 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1959 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1960 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1962 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1963 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1964 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1966 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1968 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1970 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1972 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1973 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1974 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1975 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1976 because the tests only now provoked it.
1978 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1979 (this can affect the format of dates).
1981 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1982 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1983 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1984 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1986 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1988 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1989 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1990 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1991 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1993 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1994 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1995 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1997 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2000 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2001 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2002 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2003 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2004 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2005 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2008 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2009 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2010 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2013 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2014 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2015 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2017 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2018 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2019 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2020 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2021 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2022 so I produce this patch..."
2024 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2025 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2028 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2029 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2030 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2031 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2034 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2036 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2037 long debug lines gets shown.
2039 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2040 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2042 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2044 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2045 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2046 of $primary_hostname.
2048 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2049 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2050 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2051 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2052 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2053 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2054 by change 4.50/55 above.
2056 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2057 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2058 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2059 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2060 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2061 running as the user.
2064 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2065 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2066 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2069 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2070 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2072 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2073 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2074 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2075 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2076 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2078 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2079 This has been fixed.
2081 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2082 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2083 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2084 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2087 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2089 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2090 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2091 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2092 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2094 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2095 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2097 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2098 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2099 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2101 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2102 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2103 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2106 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2107 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2108 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2110 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2111 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2112 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2113 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2115 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2116 during host lookups.
2118 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2119 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2121 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2123 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2124 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2125 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2126 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2127 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2130 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2131 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2133 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2134 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2135 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2137 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2139 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2140 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2141 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2142 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2143 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2144 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2147 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2148 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2149 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2150 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2151 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2153 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2156 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2158 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2159 "vacation" handling.
2161 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2162 OS variants using glibc.
2164 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2167 ----------------------------------------------------
2168 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2169 ----------------------------------------------------
2175 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2176 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2179 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2180 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2183 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2184 filter fails to execute.
2186 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2187 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2188 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2189 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2190 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2192 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2193 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2194 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2195 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2197 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2198 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2199 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2200 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2201 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2203 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2205 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2206 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2207 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2208 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2210 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2211 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2212 sender verification.
2214 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2215 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2217 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2218 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2220 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2221 ignore_target_hosts.
2223 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2224 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2225 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2226 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2229 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2230 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2231 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2233 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2234 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2235 wake it up if nothing else does.
2237 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2238 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2239 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2242 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2243 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2245 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
2247 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2248 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2251 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2252 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2255 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2256 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2257 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2258 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2259 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2262 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2263 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2266 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2267 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2268 $sender_host_address.
2270 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2272 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2273 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2274 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2276 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
2279 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2280 (this can affect the format of dates).
2282 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2283 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2284 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2285 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2287 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2288 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2289 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2291 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2292 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2293 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2294 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2296 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2297 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2298 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2300 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2303 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2304 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2305 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2306 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2307 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2308 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2311 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2312 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2313 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2314 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2317 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2318 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2319 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2320 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2321 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2322 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2323 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2325 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2326 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2327 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2328 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2329 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2330 running as the user.
2333 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2334 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2335 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2338 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2339 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2340 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2341 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2342 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2344 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2345 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2346 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2347 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2350 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2351 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2352 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2353 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2354 because the tests only now provoked it.
2360 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2361 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2362 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2363 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2364 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2365 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2366 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2368 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2369 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2372 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2374 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2376 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2377 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2380 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2381 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2382 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2383 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2384 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2386 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2387 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2389 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2391 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2393 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2396 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2397 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2399 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2400 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2401 affecting debugging statements).
2403 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2405 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2406 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2407 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2408 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2409 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2410 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2411 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2412 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2413 after the received time, and all would be well.
2415 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2416 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2417 condition in an expansion string.
2419 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2421 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2422 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2423 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2424 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2425 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2426 job under whatever limits there are.
2428 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2430 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2433 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2434 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2435 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2436 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2439 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2440 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2441 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2442 binary data in such strings.
2444 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2446 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2447 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2448 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2449 failure, which is pointless.
2451 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2453 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2455 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2456 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2457 Sender: header lines.
2459 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2460 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2461 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2463 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2464 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2465 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2466 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2467 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2470 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2471 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2472 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2473 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2474 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2476 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2477 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2478 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2481 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2482 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2484 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2485 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2487 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2489 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2491 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2493 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2496 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2498 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2500 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2501 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2502 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2503 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2505 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2506 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2512 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2513 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2514 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2516 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2517 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2518 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2519 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2520 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2521 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2523 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2524 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2525 verification failure".
2527 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2528 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2529 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2530 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2532 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2533 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2534 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2535 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2536 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2537 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2538 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2539 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2540 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2541 treated as a timeout.
2543 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2544 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2545 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2546 not set for Exim filters).
2548 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2549 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2550 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2552 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2554 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2555 try to make them clearer.
2557 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2558 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2560 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2562 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2564 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2565 only the Cygwin environment.
2567 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2568 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2569 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2570 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2571 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2573 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2574 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2575 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2576 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2577 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2578 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2579 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2581 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2582 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2584 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2586 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2587 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2588 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2590 To: susanne@some.where
2592 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2593 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2594 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2595 of addresses in From: header lines).
2597 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2598 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2599 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2601 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2602 treated as non-personal.
2604 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2605 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2607 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2609 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2611 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2612 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2613 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2615 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2616 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2618 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2619 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2620 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2621 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2622 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2623 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2625 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2626 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2627 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2628 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2629 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2630 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2631 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2632 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2634 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2636 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2637 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2639 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2640 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2641 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2643 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2644 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2646 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2647 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2648 rather than long int.
2650 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2652 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2658 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2659 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2660 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2661 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2662 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2663 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2669 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2670 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2672 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2673 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2674 socklen_t is defined.
2676 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2679 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2682 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2683 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2684 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2685 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2686 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2688 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2689 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2690 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2691 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2693 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2694 of flapping under certain conditions.
2696 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2697 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2698 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2700 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2702 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2704 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2705 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2706 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2707 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2709 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2710 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2711 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2712 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2713 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2714 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2715 preserved with the message after it was received.
2717 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2718 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2719 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2720 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2721 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2722 test suite worked just fine.
2724 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2725 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2726 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2728 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2729 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2732 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2733 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2734 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2735 does not fully solve it.
2737 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2738 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2739 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2740 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2741 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2743 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2744 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2745 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2747 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2748 string, for example:
2750 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2752 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2753 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2754 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2755 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2756 the routers could not see them.
2758 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2759 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2761 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2762 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2765 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2766 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2767 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2768 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2769 that needed quoting.
2771 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2772 was not being matched caselessly.
2774 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2777 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2778 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2779 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2780 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2781 when use_sender is false.
2783 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2785 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2787 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2789 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2790 the configuration file.
2792 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2793 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2795 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2797 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2798 bytes in the message body.
2800 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2801 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2804 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2806 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2808 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2809 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2810 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2811 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2818 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2819 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2821 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2822 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2823 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2824 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2825 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2827 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2828 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2830 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2831 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2832 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2834 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2835 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2836 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2838 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2841 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2842 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2843 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2844 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2845 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2846 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2847 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2853 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2854 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2855 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2856 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2857 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2858 default (and expected) setting.
2860 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2861 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2862 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2863 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2865 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2866 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2868 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2871 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2872 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2873 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2874 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2875 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2876 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2878 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2879 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2880 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2882 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2883 part (NOT match_host).
2885 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2887 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2888 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2889 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2890 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2891 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2892 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2893 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2894 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2895 the same named file.
2897 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2898 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2901 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2902 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2903 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2904 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2907 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2908 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2909 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2911 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2913 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2915 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2917 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2918 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2920 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2921 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2922 before starting the TLS session.
2924 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2926 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2927 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2929 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2930 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2931 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2932 colon in the middle).
2938 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2939 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2940 multiple configurations are in use.
2942 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2943 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2944 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2945 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2946 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2947 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2949 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2950 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2952 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2953 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2954 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2956 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2957 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2960 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2961 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2963 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2965 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2966 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2968 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2976 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2977 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2978 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2979 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2980 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2982 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2985 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2986 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2987 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2988 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2989 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2990 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2992 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2993 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2994 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2995 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2996 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2997 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2998 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3001 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3002 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3003 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3004 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3005 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3007 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3009 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3010 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3011 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3013 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3015 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3016 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3017 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3020 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3021 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3023 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3024 Three changes have been made:
3026 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3027 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3028 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3029 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3030 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3032 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3035 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3036 the modified behaviour.
3042 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3045 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3046 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3048 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3049 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3050 try to track down a specific problem.
3052 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3053 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3054 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3056 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3059 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3060 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3061 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3062 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3063 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3064 some earlier ones do not.
3066 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3068 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3069 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3070 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3071 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3072 address literals are enabled, of course).
3074 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3076 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3077 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3078 by a command such as
3082 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3084 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3086 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3087 remained set. It is now erased.
3089 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3090 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3092 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3093 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3094 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3095 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3096 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3097 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3098 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3099 appropriate error code.
3101 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3102 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3103 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3104 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3105 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3106 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3108 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3109 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3110 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3112 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3113 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3114 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3115 terminate the header.
3117 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3118 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3119 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3121 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3122 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3123 (4.30/29). In particular:
3125 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3128 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3129 to write a maildirsize file.
3131 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3132 the transport, the new value overrides.
3134 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3137 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3138 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3139 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3142 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3143 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3144 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3147 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3148 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3149 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3151 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3152 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3155 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3156 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3157 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3159 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3161 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3163 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3165 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3166 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3169 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3170 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3171 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3172 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3173 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3174 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3175 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3178 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3179 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3180 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3181 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3182 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3185 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3186 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3187 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3188 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3189 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3190 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3191 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3192 cached value only when the same options are set.
3194 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3196 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3197 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3198 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3199 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3200 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3202 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3203 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3204 it is clearly obsolete.
3206 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3209 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3210 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3211 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3214 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3215 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3216 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3217 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3218 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3220 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3221 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3222 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3223 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3225 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3227 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3229 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3230 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3233 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3234 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3235 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3236 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3237 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3238 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3241 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3242 with the -f command-line option.
3244 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3245 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3246 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3247 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3248 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3249 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3251 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3252 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3255 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3256 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3257 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3258 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3259 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3260 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3261 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3262 buffer is too small.
3264 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3265 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3267 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3268 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3269 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3270 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3271 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3272 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3273 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3274 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3275 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3277 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3278 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3279 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3281 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3282 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3285 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3286 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3287 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3288 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3289 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3291 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3292 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3293 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3294 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3297 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3299 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3301 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3302 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3304 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3305 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3306 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3308 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3309 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3310 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3311 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3312 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3314 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3315 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3316 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3317 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3318 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3319 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3320 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3322 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3323 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3324 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3325 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3326 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3327 the test of how many are available.
3329 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3330 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3331 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3332 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3333 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3334 new message is started.
3336 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3337 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3339 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3340 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3342 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3343 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3344 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3347 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3348 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3349 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3350 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3351 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3352 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3353 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3355 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3356 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3357 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3358 interpreted as octal.
3360 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3363 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3364 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3365 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3366 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3367 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3368 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3370 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3371 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3372 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3373 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3375 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3376 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3377 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3378 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3380 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3381 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3384 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3385 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3387 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3389 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3390 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3391 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3392 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3394 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3395 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3396 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3397 supplied", which is not helpful.
3399 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3400 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3401 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3403 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3404 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3405 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3406 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3407 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3408 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3409 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3410 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3412 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3413 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3414 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3415 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3416 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3418 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3419 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3420 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3421 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3422 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3423 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3425 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3426 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3427 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3429 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
3431 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3432 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3433 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3436 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3438 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3439 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3440 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3441 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3442 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3443 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3444 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3445 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3447 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3448 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3449 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3450 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3451 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3453 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3456 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3457 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3458 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3459 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3460 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3461 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3462 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3463 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3464 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3470 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3471 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3472 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3474 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3477 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3478 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3479 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3481 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3482 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3483 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3484 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3485 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3486 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3488 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3489 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3490 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3491 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3492 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3493 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3494 the Exim test suite.
3496 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3497 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3498 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3499 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3501 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3502 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3503 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3504 specify it in this variable.
3506 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3507 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3508 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3509 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3511 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3512 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3513 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3514 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3516 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3517 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3518 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3519 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3520 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3522 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3524 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3527 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3528 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3529 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3530 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3531 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3533 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3534 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3536 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3537 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3538 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3539 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3540 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3542 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3543 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3545 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3546 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3547 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3549 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3550 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3552 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3553 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3555 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3556 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3557 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3559 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3560 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3562 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3563 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3564 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3565 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3567 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3569 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3570 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3571 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3572 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3574 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3576 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3577 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3579 25. Added .include_if_exists.
3581 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3582 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3583 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3584 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3585 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3586 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3588 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3590 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3591 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3594 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3596 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3597 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3599 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3600 550 Sender verify failed
3602 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3603 the final line of the response.
3605 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3606 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3607 all other user lookups.
3609 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3612 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3613 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3614 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3615 result into an int without checking.
3617 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3618 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3619 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3621 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3622 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3623 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3624 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3626 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3629 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3630 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3632 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3633 to the empty sender.
3635 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3636 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3637 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3638 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3639 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3640 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3641 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3644 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3645 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3646 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3647 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3650 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3651 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3653 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3656 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3657 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3659 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3661 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3662 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3665 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3666 as soon as it is encountered.
3668 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3670 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3673 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3674 recognizes a tab character.
3676 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3677 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3678 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3679 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3681 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3683 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3686 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3688 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3690 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3691 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3694 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3695 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3696 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3697 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3698 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3700 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3701 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3703 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3704 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3705 list (.included file names were always shown).
3707 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3708 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3709 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3712 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3713 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3715 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3717 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3719 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3721 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3722 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3723 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3724 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3725 failures to open the logs.
3727 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3728 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3729 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3730 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3731 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3732 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3733 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3739 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3740 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3741 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3744 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3745 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3746 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3748 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3749 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3750 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3752 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3753 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3754 causing some misleading effects.
3756 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3757 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3758 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3760 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3761 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3762 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3763 queue-runner function directly.
3769 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3772 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3773 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3774 was always written to the default place.
3776 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3777 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3778 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3780 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3782 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3784 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3785 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3786 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3788 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3789 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3792 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3793 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3794 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3796 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3797 command line option is disabled.
3799 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3800 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3802 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3804 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3806 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3807 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3809 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3811 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3812 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3813 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3814 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3815 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3816 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3818 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3819 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3822 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3823 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3825 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3826 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3828 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3829 received was valid base64.
3831 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3832 name of the variable that was being set.
3834 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3836 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3837 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3838 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3839 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3840 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3841 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3843 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3845 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3846 nor realm was specified.
3848 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3849 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3850 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3851 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3853 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3854 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3855 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3857 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3858 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3859 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3861 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3862 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3863 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3864 some systems use these upper case variants.
3866 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3867 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3868 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3869 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3871 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3873 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3874 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3876 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3877 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3880 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3882 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3883 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3884 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3885 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3887 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3890 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3891 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3892 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3894 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3895 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3897 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3898 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3899 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3900 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3902 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3903 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3904 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3906 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3908 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3909 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3910 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3911 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3914 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3915 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3916 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3918 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3920 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3921 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3923 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3924 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3926 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3927 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3928 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3929 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3930 when emails are that large.
3937 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3938 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3940 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3941 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3942 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3944 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3945 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3946 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3948 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3949 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3950 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3951 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3952 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3954 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3955 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3956 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3957 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3958 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3961 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3962 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3963 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3964 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3965 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3966 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3967 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3968 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3969 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3970 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3971 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3972 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3973 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3974 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3976 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3977 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3980 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3981 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3982 error should be diagnosed.
3984 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3985 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3986 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3987 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3988 appeared instead of "NULL".
3990 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3991 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3992 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3993 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3994 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3995 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3998 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3999 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4000 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4006 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4007 or receiver verification errors.
4009 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4012 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4013 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4014 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4015 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4017 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4018 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4019 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4020 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4021 shouldn't happen again.
4023 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4024 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4025 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4027 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4028 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4030 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4032 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4033 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4035 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4036 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4039 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4040 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4041 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4043 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4044 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4045 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4046 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4048 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4049 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4050 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4051 to define what should happen).
4053 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4054 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4055 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4057 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4059 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4061 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4062 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4064 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4065 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4066 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4067 structure in all cases.
4069 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4070 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4071 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4072 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4074 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4075 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4078 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4079 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4081 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4082 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4084 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4085 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4086 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4088 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4089 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4090 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4092 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4093 the book and for uniformity.
4095 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4097 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4098 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4099 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4100 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4101 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4102 non-existent command as the problem.
4104 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4105 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4106 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4108 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4110 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4111 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4112 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4114 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4115 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4116 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4117 timestamps using strftime().
4119 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4120 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4122 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4123 transport-time rewrites.
4125 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4126 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4127 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4128 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4130 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4131 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4133 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4134 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4135 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4136 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4139 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4140 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4141 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4142 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4143 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4144 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4145 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4147 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4148 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4149 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4150 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4151 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4153 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4154 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4155 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4156 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4157 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4158 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4159 remaining text gets split now.
4161 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4162 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4163 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4164 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4166 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4167 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4168 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4169 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4172 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4173 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4174 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4175 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4176 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4177 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4178 passed through if needed.
4180 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4181 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4182 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4183 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4184 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4185 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4187 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4188 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4189 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4190 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4191 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4193 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4194 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4195 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4196 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4197 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4199 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4200 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4203 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4204 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4205 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4206 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4207 mayhem of various kinds.
4209 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4210 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4211 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4212 the right test for positive values.
4214 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4215 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4216 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4217 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4218 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4219 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4220 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4221 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4222 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4223 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4226 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4229 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4230 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4233 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4234 the existing equality matching.
4236 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4237 dealing with inode numbers.
4239 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4240 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4241 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4243 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4244 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4245 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4246 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4249 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4250 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4251 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4252 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4253 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4254 relay addresses has also been removed.
4256 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4258 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4259 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4260 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4262 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4263 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4264 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4265 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4266 processing applies to CR:
4268 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4269 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4271 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4272 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4273 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4274 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4276 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4277 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4278 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4280 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4281 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4282 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4283 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4284 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4285 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4288 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4291 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4292 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4293 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4294 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4297 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4299 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4301 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4303 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4304 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4305 not considered personal.
4307 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4309 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4311 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4313 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4314 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4315 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4316 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4317 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4318 header lines, and spool format errors.
4320 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4321 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4322 for more flexibility.
4324 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4325 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4326 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4328 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4331 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4332 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4333 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4334 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4335 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4336 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4337 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4338 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4339 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4341 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4342 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4343 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4344 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4345 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4346 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4347 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4349 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4350 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4351 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4353 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4354 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4355 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4356 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4357 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4358 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4359 instead of killing the process with assert().
4361 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4362 than Unicode encoding.
4364 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4365 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4366 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4367 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4369 77. Added process_log_path.
4371 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4372 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4374 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4375 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4377 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4378 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4379 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4381 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4382 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4383 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4384 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4385 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4388 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4389 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4392 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4393 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4394 they will be used during message reception.
4400 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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