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