1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.222 2005/09/12 13:55:54 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
10 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
12 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
14 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
16 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
17 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
18 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
20 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
21 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
22 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
24 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
25 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
28 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
29 ${stat: expansion item.
31 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
32 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
34 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
35 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
38 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
40 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
43 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
44 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
46 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
48 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
49 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
50 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
51 the end of the subprocess.
53 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
54 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
55 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
56 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
57 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
59 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
61 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
63 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
64 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
66 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
68 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
70 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
71 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
74 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
76 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
77 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
78 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
80 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
81 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
83 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
84 host errors such as "Connection refused".
86 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
87 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
89 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
90 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
92 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
93 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
94 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
95 contributed by a Radius user.
97 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
98 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
100 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
101 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
103 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
106 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
107 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
110 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
111 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
112 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
113 header lines when this was not necessary.
115 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
117 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
118 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
119 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
122 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
125 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
126 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
127 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
128 return code was incorrect.
130 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
132 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
134 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
136 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
138 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
139 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
140 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
141 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
142 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
145 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
147 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
148 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
149 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
150 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
151 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
152 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
153 which is clearly wrong.
155 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
157 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
158 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
159 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
162 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
163 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
165 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
167 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
168 the "build-* directories that it finds.
174 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
176 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
177 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
178 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
179 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
181 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
183 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
184 can still be requested.
186 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
187 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
188 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
189 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
191 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
192 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
193 circumstances, but probably never did.
195 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
196 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
197 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
200 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
202 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
203 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
205 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
207 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
209 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
210 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
211 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
212 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
213 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
214 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
216 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
217 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
218 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
219 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
220 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
221 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
223 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
224 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
226 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
227 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
229 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
230 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
232 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
234 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
236 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
238 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
240 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
242 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
244 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
246 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
247 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
248 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
250 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
251 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
252 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
253 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
255 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
256 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
257 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
259 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
260 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
261 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
262 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
264 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
265 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
268 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
269 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
270 should work with maildirs and everything.
272 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
273 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
275 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
278 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
279 function for BDB 4.3.
281 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
283 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
284 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
287 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
288 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
289 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
290 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
291 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
292 formatting function string_vformat().
294 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
295 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
296 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
297 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
298 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
299 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
300 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
301 falls back to the previous guessing code."
303 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
304 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
307 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
308 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
310 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
311 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
312 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
313 test. It is now used for both.
315 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
316 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
317 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
318 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
319 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
320 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
322 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
323 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
324 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
327 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
328 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
329 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
331 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
332 experimental DomainKeys support:
334 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
335 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
336 the control was given.
338 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
340 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
342 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
344 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
345 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
346 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
349 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
350 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
351 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
352 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
353 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
354 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
357 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
358 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
359 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
360 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
361 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
362 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
364 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
365 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
366 do -d+all out of habit.
368 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
369 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
372 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
373 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
374 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
375 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
376 record types that Exim uses.
378 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
379 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
380 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
381 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
382 non-existent file that was broken.
384 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
385 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
387 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
388 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
389 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
391 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
393 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
394 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
395 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
396 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
397 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
400 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
401 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
402 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
403 at a slight CPU cost.
405 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
406 as requested by Marc Sherman.
408 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
411 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
413 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
414 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
420 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
421 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
423 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
425 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
427 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
428 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
430 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
431 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
432 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
433 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
434 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
435 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
438 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
439 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
440 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
441 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
444 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
445 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
446 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
447 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
448 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
449 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
450 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
453 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
454 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
456 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
457 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
458 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
459 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
460 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
461 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
463 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
464 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
465 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
466 SMTP commands that take arguments.
468 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
471 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
472 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
474 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
475 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
476 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
477 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
480 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
482 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
483 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
485 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
486 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
487 to what was transported.)
489 TF/01 Added $received_time.
491 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
492 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
493 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
494 spamd_address settings.
496 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
497 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
498 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
499 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
500 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
502 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
504 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
505 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
506 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
507 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
508 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
510 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
511 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
513 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
514 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
515 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
516 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
517 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
518 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
519 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
522 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
523 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
524 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
525 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
526 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
527 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
528 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
531 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
533 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
534 driver and ACL definitions.
536 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
537 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
539 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
540 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
541 understands it better than I do:
543 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
544 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
546 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
547 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
548 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
549 => three warnings about OTP not working
550 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
552 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
553 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
554 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
555 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
557 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
558 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
560 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
561 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
562 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
564 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
565 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
568 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
569 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
572 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
573 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
574 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
576 warn !verify = sender
577 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
579 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
580 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
582 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
584 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
585 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
587 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
588 nomenclature these days.)
590 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
591 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
593 PH/30 In these circumstances:
594 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
595 . First host does not offer TLS;
596 . First host accepts first address;
597 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
598 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
599 . Second host accepts second address.
600 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
601 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
604 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
605 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
606 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
607 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
608 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
610 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
611 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
613 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
614 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
616 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
617 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
618 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
620 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
621 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
624 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
626 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
627 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
628 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
629 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
630 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
631 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
632 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
634 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
635 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
636 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
637 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
638 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
640 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
641 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
644 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
645 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
646 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
647 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
648 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
649 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
651 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
653 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
654 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
655 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
656 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
657 printable escape sequences.
659 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
660 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
663 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
664 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
667 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
668 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
669 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
670 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
671 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
673 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
674 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
675 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
677 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
679 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
680 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
683 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
684 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
685 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
686 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
687 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
688 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
689 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
690 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
691 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
694 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
695 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
696 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
697 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
701 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
702 ----------------------------------------
704 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
705 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
706 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
707 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
708 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
709 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
712 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
713 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
714 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
715 historical information.
721 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
723 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
724 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
726 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
727 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
730 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
731 filter fails to execute.
733 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
734 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
735 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
736 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
737 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
739 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
741 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
742 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
743 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
744 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
746 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
747 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
748 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
749 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
750 control that does not make sense is encountered.
752 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
754 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
756 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
757 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
758 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
759 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
761 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
762 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
765 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
766 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
768 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
770 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
773 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
774 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
776 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
777 the spool by the -Mrm option.
779 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
780 information about exactly what failed.
782 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
784 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
785 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
786 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
788 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
789 It is now set to "smtps".
791 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
794 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
795 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
796 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
797 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
800 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
801 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
802 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
804 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
805 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
806 wake it up if nothing else does.
808 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
809 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
810 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
813 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
814 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
816 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
818 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
819 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
820 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
821 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
822 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
823 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
824 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
825 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
827 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
828 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
831 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
832 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
833 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
834 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
836 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
837 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
838 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
839 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
840 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
843 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
844 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
845 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
846 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
848 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
849 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
852 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
853 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
854 $sender_host_address.
856 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
857 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
858 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
859 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
860 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
863 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
865 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
866 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
868 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
869 just the host names, not the priorities.
871 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
872 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
873 controlled by a keyword.
875 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
876 multiple records are returned.
878 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
879 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
882 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
884 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
885 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
887 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
888 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
889 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
891 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
893 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
895 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
897 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
898 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
899 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
900 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
901 because the tests only now provoked it.
903 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
904 (this can affect the format of dates).
906 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
907 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
908 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
909 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
911 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
913 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
914 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
915 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
916 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
918 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
919 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
920 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
922 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
925 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
926 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
927 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
928 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
929 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
930 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
933 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
934 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
935 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
938 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
939 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
940 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
942 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
943 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
944 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
945 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
946 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
947 so I produce this patch..."
949 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
950 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
953 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
954 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
955 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
956 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
959 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
961 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
962 long debug lines gets shown.
964 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
965 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
967 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
969 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
970 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
971 of $primary_hostname.
973 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
974 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
975 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
976 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
977 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
978 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
979 by change 4.50/55 above.
981 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
982 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
983 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
984 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
985 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
989 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
990 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
991 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
994 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
995 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
997 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
998 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
999 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1000 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1001 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1003 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1004 This has been fixed.
1006 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1007 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1008 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1009 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1012 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1014 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1015 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1016 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1017 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1019 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1020 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1022 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1023 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1024 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1026 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1027 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1028 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1031 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1032 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1033 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1035 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1036 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1037 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1038 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1040 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1041 during host lookups.
1043 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1044 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1046 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1048 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1049 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1050 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1051 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1052 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1055 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1056 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1058 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1059 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1060 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1062 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1064 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1065 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1066 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1067 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1068 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1069 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1072 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1073 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1074 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1075 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1076 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1078 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1081 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1083 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1084 "vacation" handling.
1086 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1087 OS variants using glibc.
1089 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1092 ----------------------------------------------------
1093 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1094 ----------------------------------------------------
1100 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1101 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1104 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1105 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1108 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1109 filter fails to execute.
1111 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1112 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1113 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1114 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1115 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1117 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1118 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1119 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1120 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1122 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1123 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1124 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1125 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1126 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1128 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1130 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1131 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1132 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1133 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1135 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1136 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1137 sender verification.
1139 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1140 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1142 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1143 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1145 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1146 ignore_target_hosts.
1148 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1149 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1150 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1151 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1154 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1155 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1156 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1158 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1159 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1160 wake it up if nothing else does.
1162 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1163 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1164 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1167 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1168 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1170 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1172 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1173 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1176 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1177 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1180 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1181 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1182 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1183 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1184 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1187 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1188 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1191 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1192 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1193 $sender_host_address.
1195 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1197 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1198 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1199 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1201 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1204 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1205 (this can affect the format of dates).
1207 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1208 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1209 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1210 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1212 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1213 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1214 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1216 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1217 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1218 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1219 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1221 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1222 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1223 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1225 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1228 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1229 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1230 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1231 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1232 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1233 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1236 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1237 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1238 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1239 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1242 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1243 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1244 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1245 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1246 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1247 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1248 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1250 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1251 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1252 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1253 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1254 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1255 running as the user.
1258 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1259 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1260 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1263 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1264 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1265 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1266 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1267 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1269 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1270 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1271 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1272 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1275 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1276 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1277 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1278 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1279 because the tests only now provoked it.
1285 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1286 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1287 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1288 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1289 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1290 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1291 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1293 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1294 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1297 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1299 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1301 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1302 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1305 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1306 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1307 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1308 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1309 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1311 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1312 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1314 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1316 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1318 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1321 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1322 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1324 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1325 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1326 affecting debugging statements).
1328 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1330 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1331 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1332 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1333 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1334 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1335 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1336 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1337 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1338 after the received time, and all would be well.
1340 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1341 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1342 condition in an expansion string.
1344 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1346 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1347 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1348 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1349 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1350 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1351 job under whatever limits there are.
1353 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1355 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1358 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1359 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1360 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1361 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1364 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1365 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1366 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1367 binary data in such strings.
1369 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1371 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1372 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1373 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1374 failure, which is pointless.
1376 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1378 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1380 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1381 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1382 Sender: header lines.
1384 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1385 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1386 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1388 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1389 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1390 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1391 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1392 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1395 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1396 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1397 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1398 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1399 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1401 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1402 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1403 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1406 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1407 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1409 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1410 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1412 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1414 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1416 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1418 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1421 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1423 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1425 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1426 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1427 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1428 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1430 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1431 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1437 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1438 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1439 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1441 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1442 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1443 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1444 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1445 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1446 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1448 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1449 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1450 verification failure".
1452 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1453 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1454 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1455 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1457 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1458 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1459 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1460 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1461 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1462 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1463 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1464 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1465 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1466 treated as a timeout.
1468 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1469 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1470 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1471 not set for Exim filters).
1473 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1474 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1475 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1477 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1479 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1480 try to make them clearer.
1482 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1483 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1485 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1487 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1489 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1490 only the Cygwin environment.
1492 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1493 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1494 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1495 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1496 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1498 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1499 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1500 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1501 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1502 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1503 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1504 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1506 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1507 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1509 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1511 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1512 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1513 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1515 To: susanne@some.where
1517 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1518 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1519 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1520 of addresses in From: header lines).
1522 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1523 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1524 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1526 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1527 treated as non-personal.
1529 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1530 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1532 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1534 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1536 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1537 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1538 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1540 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1541 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1543 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1544 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1545 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1546 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1547 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1548 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1550 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1551 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1552 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1553 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1554 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1555 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1556 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1557 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1559 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1561 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1562 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1564 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1565 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1566 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1568 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1569 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1571 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1572 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1573 rather than long int.
1575 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1577 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1583 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1584 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1585 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1586 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1587 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1588 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1594 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1595 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1597 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1598 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1599 socklen_t is defined.
1601 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1604 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1607 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1608 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1609 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1610 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1611 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1613 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1614 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1615 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1616 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1618 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1619 of flapping under certain conditions.
1621 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1622 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1623 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1625 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1627 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1629 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1630 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1631 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1632 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1634 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1635 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1636 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1637 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1638 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1639 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1640 preserved with the message after it was received.
1642 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1643 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1644 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1645 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1646 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1647 test suite worked just fine.
1649 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1650 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1651 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1653 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1654 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1657 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1658 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1659 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1660 does not fully solve it.
1662 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1663 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1664 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1665 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1666 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1668 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1669 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1670 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1672 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1673 string, for example:
1675 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1677 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1678 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1679 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1680 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1681 the routers could not see them.
1683 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1684 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1686 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1687 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1690 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1691 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1692 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1693 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1694 that needed quoting.
1696 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1697 was not being matched caselessly.
1699 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1702 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1703 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1704 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1705 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1706 when use_sender is false.
1708 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1710 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1712 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1714 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1715 the configuration file.
1717 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1718 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1720 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1722 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1723 bytes in the message body.
1725 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1726 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1729 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1731 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1733 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1734 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1735 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1736 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1743 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1744 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1746 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1747 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1748 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1749 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1750 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1752 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1753 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1755 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1756 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1757 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1759 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1760 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1761 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1763 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1766 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1767 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1768 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1769 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1770 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1771 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1772 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1778 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1779 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1780 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1781 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1782 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1783 default (and expected) setting.
1785 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1786 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1787 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1788 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1790 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1791 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1793 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1796 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1797 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1798 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1799 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1800 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1801 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1803 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1804 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1805 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1807 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1808 part (NOT match_host).
1810 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1812 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1813 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1814 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1815 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1816 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1817 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1818 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1819 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1820 the same named file.
1822 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1823 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1826 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1827 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1828 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1829 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1832 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1833 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1834 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1836 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1838 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1840 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1842 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1843 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1845 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1846 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1847 before starting the TLS session.
1849 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1851 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1852 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1854 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1855 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1856 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1857 colon in the middle).
1863 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1864 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1865 multiple configurations are in use.
1867 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1868 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1869 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1870 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1871 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1872 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1874 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1875 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1877 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1878 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1879 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1881 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1882 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1885 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1886 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1888 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1890 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1891 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1893 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1901 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1902 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1903 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1904 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1905 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1907 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1910 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1911 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1912 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1913 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1914 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1915 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1917 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1918 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1919 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1920 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1921 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1922 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1923 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1926 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1927 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1928 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1929 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1930 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1932 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1934 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1935 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1936 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1938 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1940 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1941 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1942 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1945 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1946 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1948 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1949 Three changes have been made:
1951 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1952 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1953 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1954 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1955 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1957 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1960 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1961 the modified behaviour.
1967 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1970 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1971 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1973 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1974 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1975 try to track down a specific problem.
1977 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1978 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1979 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1981 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1984 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1985 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1986 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1987 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1988 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1989 some earlier ones do not.
1991 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1993 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1994 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1995 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1996 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1997 address literals are enabled, of course).
1999 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2001 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2002 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2003 by a command such as
2007 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2009 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2011 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2012 remained set. It is now erased.
2014 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2015 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2017 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2018 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2019 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2020 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2021 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2022 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2023 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2024 appropriate error code.
2026 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2027 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2028 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2029 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2030 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2031 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2033 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2034 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2035 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2037 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2038 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2039 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2040 terminate the header.
2042 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2043 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2044 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2046 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2047 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2048 (4.30/29). In particular:
2050 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2053 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2054 to write a maildirsize file.
2056 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2057 the transport, the new value overrides.
2059 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2062 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2063 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2064 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2067 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2068 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2069 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2072 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2073 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2074 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2076 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2077 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2080 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2081 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2082 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2084 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2086 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2088 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2090 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2091 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2094 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2095 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2096 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2097 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2098 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2099 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2100 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2103 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2104 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2105 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2106 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2107 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2110 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2111 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2112 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2113 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2114 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2115 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2116 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2117 cached value only when the same options are set.
2119 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2121 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2122 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2123 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2124 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2125 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2127 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2128 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2129 it is clearly obsolete.
2131 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2134 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2135 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2136 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2139 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2140 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2141 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2142 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2143 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2145 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2146 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2147 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2148 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2150 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2152 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2154 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2155 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2158 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2159 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2160 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2161 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2162 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2163 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2166 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2167 with the -f command-line option.
2169 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2170 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2171 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2172 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2173 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2174 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2176 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2177 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2180 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2181 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2182 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2183 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2184 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2185 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2186 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2187 buffer is too small.
2189 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2190 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2192 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2193 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2194 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2195 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2196 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2197 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2198 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2199 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2200 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2202 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2203 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2204 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2206 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2207 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2210 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2211 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2212 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2213 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2214 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2216 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2217 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2218 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2219 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2222 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2224 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2226 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2227 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2229 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2230 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2231 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2233 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2234 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2235 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2236 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2237 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2239 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2240 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2241 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2242 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2243 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2244 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2245 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2247 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2248 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2249 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2250 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2251 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2252 the test of how many are available.
2254 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2255 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2256 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2257 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2258 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2259 new message is started.
2261 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2262 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2264 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2265 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2267 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2268 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2269 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2272 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2273 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2274 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2275 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2276 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2277 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2278 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2280 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2281 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2282 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2283 interpreted as octal.
2285 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2288 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2289 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2290 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2291 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2292 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2293 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2295 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2296 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2297 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2298 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2300 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2301 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2302 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2303 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2305 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2306 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2309 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2310 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2312 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2314 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2315 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2316 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2317 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2319 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2320 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2321 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2322 supplied", which is not helpful.
2324 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2325 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2326 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2328 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2329 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2330 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2331 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2332 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2333 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2334 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2335 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2337 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2338 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2339 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2340 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2341 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2343 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2344 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2345 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2346 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2347 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2348 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2350 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2351 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2352 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2354 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2356 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2357 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2358 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2361 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2363 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2364 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2365 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2366 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2367 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2368 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2369 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2370 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2372 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2373 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2374 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2375 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2376 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2378 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2381 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2382 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2383 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2384 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2385 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2386 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2387 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2388 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2389 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2395 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2396 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2397 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2399 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2402 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2403 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2404 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2406 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2407 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2408 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2409 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2410 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2411 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2413 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2414 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2415 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2416 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2417 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2418 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2419 the Exim test suite.
2421 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2422 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2423 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2424 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2426 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2427 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2428 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2429 specify it in this variable.
2431 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2432 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2433 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2434 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2436 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2437 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2438 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2439 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2441 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2442 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2443 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2444 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2445 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2447 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2449 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2452 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2453 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2454 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2455 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2456 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2458 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2459 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2461 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2462 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2463 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2464 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2465 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2467 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2468 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2470 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2471 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2472 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2474 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2475 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2477 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2478 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2480 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2481 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2482 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2484 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2485 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2487 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2488 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2489 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2490 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2492 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2494 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2495 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2496 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2497 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2499 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2501 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2502 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2504 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2506 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2507 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2508 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2509 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2510 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2511 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2513 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2515 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2516 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2519 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2521 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2522 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2524 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2525 550 Sender verify failed
2527 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2528 the final line of the response.
2530 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2531 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2532 all other user lookups.
2534 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2537 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2538 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2539 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2540 result into an int without checking.
2542 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2543 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2544 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2546 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2547 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2548 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2549 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2551 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2554 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2555 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2557 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2558 to the empty sender.
2560 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2561 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2562 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2563 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2564 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2565 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2566 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2569 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2570 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2571 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2572 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2575 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2576 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2578 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2581 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2582 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2584 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2586 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2587 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2590 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2591 as soon as it is encountered.
2593 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2595 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2598 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2599 recognizes a tab character.
2601 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2602 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2603 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2604 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2606 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2608 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2611 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2613 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2615 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2616 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2619 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2620 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2621 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2622 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2623 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2625 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2626 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2628 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2629 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2630 list (.included file names were always shown).
2632 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2633 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2634 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2637 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2638 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2640 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2642 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2644 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2646 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2647 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2648 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2649 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2650 failures to open the logs.
2652 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2653 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2654 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2655 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2656 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2657 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2658 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2664 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2665 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2666 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2669 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2670 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2671 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2673 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2674 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2675 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2677 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2678 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2679 causing some misleading effects.
2681 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2682 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2683 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2685 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2686 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2687 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2688 queue-runner function directly.
2694 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2697 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2698 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2699 was always written to the default place.
2701 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2702 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2703 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2705 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2707 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2709 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2710 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2711 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2713 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2714 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2717 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2718 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2719 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2721 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2722 command line option is disabled.
2724 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2725 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2727 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2729 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2731 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2732 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2734 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2736 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2737 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2738 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2739 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2740 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2741 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2743 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2744 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2747 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2748 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2750 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2751 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2753 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2754 received was valid base64.
2756 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2757 name of the variable that was being set.
2759 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2761 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2762 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2763 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2764 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2765 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2766 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2768 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2770 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2771 nor realm was specified.
2773 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2774 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2775 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2776 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2778 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2779 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2780 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2782 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2783 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2784 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2786 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2787 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2788 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2789 some systems use these upper case variants.
2791 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2792 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2793 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2794 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2796 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2798 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2799 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2801 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2802 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2805 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2807 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2808 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2809 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2810 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2812 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2815 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2816 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2817 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2819 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2820 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2822 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2823 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2824 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2825 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2827 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2828 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2829 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2831 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2833 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2834 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2835 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2836 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2839 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2840 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2841 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2843 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2845 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2846 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2848 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2849 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2851 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2852 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2853 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2854 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2855 when emails are that large.
2862 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2863 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2865 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2866 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2867 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2869 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2870 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2871 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2873 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2874 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2875 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2876 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2877 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2879 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2880 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2881 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2882 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2883 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2886 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2887 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2888 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2889 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2890 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2891 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2892 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2893 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2894 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2895 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2896 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2897 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2898 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2899 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2901 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2902 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2905 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2906 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2907 error should be diagnosed.
2909 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2910 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2911 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2912 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2913 appeared instead of "NULL".
2915 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2916 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2917 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2918 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2919 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2920 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2923 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2924 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2925 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2931 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2932 or receiver verification errors.
2934 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2937 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2938 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2939 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2940 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2942 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2943 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2944 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2945 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2946 shouldn't happen again.
2948 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2949 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2950 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2952 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2953 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2955 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2957 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2958 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2960 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2961 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2964 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2965 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2966 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2968 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2969 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2970 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2971 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2973 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2974 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2975 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2976 to define what should happen).
2978 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2979 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2980 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2982 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2984 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2986 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2987 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2989 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2990 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2991 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2992 structure in all cases.
2994 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2995 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2996 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2997 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2999 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3000 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3003 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3004 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3006 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3007 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3009 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3010 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3011 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3013 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3014 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3015 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3017 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3018 the book and for uniformity.
3020 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3022 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3023 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3024 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3025 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3026 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3027 non-existent command as the problem.
3029 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3030 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3031 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3033 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3035 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3036 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3037 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3039 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3040 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3041 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3042 timestamps using strftime().
3044 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3045 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3047 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3048 transport-time rewrites.
3050 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3051 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3052 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3053 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3055 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3056 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3058 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3059 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3060 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3061 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3064 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3065 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3066 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3067 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3068 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3069 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3070 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3072 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3073 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3074 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3075 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3076 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3078 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3079 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3080 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3081 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3082 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3083 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3084 remaining text gets split now.
3086 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3087 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3088 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3089 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3091 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3092 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3093 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3094 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3097 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3098 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3099 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3100 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3101 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3102 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3103 passed through if needed.
3105 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3106 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3107 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3108 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3109 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3110 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3112 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3113 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3114 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3115 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3116 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3118 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3119 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3120 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3121 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3122 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3124 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3125 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3128 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3129 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3130 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3131 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3132 mayhem of various kinds.
3134 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3135 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3136 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3137 the right test for positive values.
3139 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3140 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3141 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3142 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3143 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3144 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3145 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3146 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3147 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3148 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3151 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3154 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3155 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3158 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3159 the existing equality matching.
3161 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3162 dealing with inode numbers.
3164 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3165 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3166 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3168 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3169 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3170 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3171 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3174 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3175 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3176 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3177 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3178 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3179 relay addresses has also been removed.
3181 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3183 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3184 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3185 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3187 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3188 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3189 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3190 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3191 processing applies to CR:
3193 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3194 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3196 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3197 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3198 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3199 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3201 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3202 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3203 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3205 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3206 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3207 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3208 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3209 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3210 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3213 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3216 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3217 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3218 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3219 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3222 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3224 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3226 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3228 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3229 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3230 not considered personal.
3232 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3234 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3236 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3238 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3239 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3240 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3241 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3242 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3243 header lines, and spool format errors.
3245 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3246 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3247 for more flexibility.
3249 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3250 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3251 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3253 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3256 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3257 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3258 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3259 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3260 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3261 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3262 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3263 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3264 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3266 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3267 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3268 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3269 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3270 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3271 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3272 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3274 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3275 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3276 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3278 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3279 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3280 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3281 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3282 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3283 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3284 instead of killing the process with assert().
3286 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3287 than Unicode encoding.
3289 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3290 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3291 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3292 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3294 77. Added process_log_path.
3296 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3297 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3299 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3300 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3302 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3303 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3304 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3306 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3307 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3308 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3309 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3310 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3313 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3314 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3317 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3318 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3319 they will be used during message reception.
3325 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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