1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these lookups.
105 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
112 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
113 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
114 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
117 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
118 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
119 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
120 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
122 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
123 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
125 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
128 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
129 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
130 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
131 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
132 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
133 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
134 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
136 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
137 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
138 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
139 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
140 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
141 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
142 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
143 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
144 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
145 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
147 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
148 usable until about year 3700.
149 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
150 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
151 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
152 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
153 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
154 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
155 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
156 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
157 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
158 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
159 wait- hints databases.
164 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
165 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
166 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
169 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
170 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
172 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
173 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
174 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
175 not be modified by local-scan code.
177 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
178 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
180 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
181 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
184 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
185 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
187 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
188 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
191 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
192 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
193 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
195 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
196 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
197 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
199 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
200 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
201 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
202 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
203 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
204 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
205 Assorted crashes happen.
207 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
208 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
209 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
212 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
213 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
214 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
215 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
217 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
218 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
219 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
222 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
224 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
225 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
228 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
229 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
230 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
232 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
233 result of expansion operators and items.
235 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
236 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
237 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
238 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
240 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
242 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
243 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
244 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
245 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
248 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
249 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
251 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
252 Previously only the domain part was returned.
254 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
255 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
256 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
257 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
259 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
260 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
261 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
262 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
264 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
265 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
266 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
267 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
268 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
271 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
272 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
273 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
275 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
276 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
277 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
278 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
280 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
281 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
282 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
283 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
285 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
286 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
287 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
288 Previously only the server IP was used.
290 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
291 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
292 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
293 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
295 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
296 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
297 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
299 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
300 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
301 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
304 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
305 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
307 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
308 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
314 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
315 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
316 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
318 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
319 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
320 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
321 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
323 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
324 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
325 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
326 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
327 so could be handling tainted values.
329 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
330 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
331 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
333 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
334 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
335 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
338 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
339 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
340 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
341 to align better with RFC 6125.
343 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
344 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
345 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
346 by adding a release action in that path.
348 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
349 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
350 dynamically-created buffers.
352 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
353 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
354 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
355 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
357 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
358 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
359 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
360 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
362 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
363 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
364 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
366 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
367 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
368 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
369 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
371 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
372 excluded, not matching the documentation.
374 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
375 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
377 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
378 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
379 this was a coding error.
381 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
382 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
383 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
384 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
385 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
386 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
387 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
389 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
390 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
391 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
392 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
394 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
395 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
396 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
397 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
398 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
400 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
401 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
404 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
405 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
406 domain-parking registrar.
408 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
409 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
410 after removing the newline.
412 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
413 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
414 option set, which was previously used.
416 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
419 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
420 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
421 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
422 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
424 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
425 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
426 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
427 exim.dev.20160529.3).
429 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
430 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
431 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
433 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
434 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
435 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
438 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
439 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
440 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
442 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
443 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
444 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
445 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
448 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
449 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
450 there, handle PRX and TFO.
452 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
453 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
454 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
455 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
456 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
458 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
459 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
460 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
461 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
464 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
465 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
467 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
470 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
471 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
472 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
473 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
474 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
476 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
478 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
479 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
480 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
481 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
482 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
483 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
485 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
486 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
488 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
489 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
490 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
492 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
493 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
496 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
497 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
498 of a new variable: $auth4.
500 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
501 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
502 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
503 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
504 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
506 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
507 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
508 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
509 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
511 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
512 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
513 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
515 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
516 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
517 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
518 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
521 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
522 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
523 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
526 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
527 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
528 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
529 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
531 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
532 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
534 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
535 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
536 looked as if if might be one.
538 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
539 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
540 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
541 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
542 messages can show the proxy information.
544 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
545 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
546 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
547 "queue_time_exclusive".
549 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
550 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
551 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
553 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
554 making it unusable in complex expressions.
556 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
557 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
560 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
562 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
564 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
566 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
567 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
568 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
569 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
571 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
572 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
574 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
575 better. Reported by Qualys.
577 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
578 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
581 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
583 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
586 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
588 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
589 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
590 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
591 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
593 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
594 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
596 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
597 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
598 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
599 mode until after various protocol state checks.
600 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
602 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
604 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
605 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
607 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
610 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
611 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
612 executed child processes (if any).
614 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
617 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
618 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
619 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
620 been reported on other platforms.
622 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
624 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
625 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
626 Not supported on Solaris 10.
628 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
629 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
630 since fakereject was originally introduced.
632 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
633 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
635 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
636 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
637 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
640 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
641 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
642 which only permit IP addresses.
648 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
649 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
650 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
652 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
654 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
655 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
658 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
659 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
660 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
662 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
664 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
666 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
667 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
668 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
670 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
671 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
672 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
674 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
675 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
677 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
678 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
681 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
682 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
683 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
684 should both provide the file and set the option.
685 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
687 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
688 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
690 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
691 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
692 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
693 Authentication-Results: header.
695 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
696 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
697 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
698 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
700 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
701 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
702 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
703 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
704 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
705 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
706 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
708 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
709 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
710 copies while it is still usable.
712 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
713 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
714 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
716 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
717 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
719 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
720 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
721 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
722 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
724 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
725 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
726 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
729 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
730 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
731 - the pipe transport command
732 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
733 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
735 - paths used by single-key lookups
736 Previously this was permitted.
738 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
739 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
740 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
741 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
743 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
744 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
745 support larger malloc requests.
747 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
748 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
749 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
750 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
752 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
753 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
754 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
755 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
758 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
759 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
760 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
761 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
762 data being length-specified.
764 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
765 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
766 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
767 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
769 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
770 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
771 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
772 not being properly tracked.
774 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
775 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
776 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
777 minute could be seen.
779 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
780 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
781 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
783 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
784 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
786 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
787 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
790 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
792 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
793 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
795 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
796 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
797 filesystem as sufficient validation.
799 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
800 argument is supplied.
802 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
803 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
804 access under Exim's current working directory.
806 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
807 Previously no event was raised.
809 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
810 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
811 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
814 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
815 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
816 the size of the signature hash.
818 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
819 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
821 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
822 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
823 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
824 dropped between messages.
826 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
827 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
828 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
829 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
831 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
832 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
833 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
834 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
835 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
836 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
837 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
838 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
839 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
841 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
842 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
843 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
845 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
846 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
853 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
854 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
856 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
857 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
860 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
863 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
865 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
867 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
868 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
870 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
871 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
872 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
873 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
874 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
875 suitably configured).
877 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
878 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
880 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
881 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
884 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
885 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
887 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
888 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
889 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
890 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
893 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
894 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
895 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
897 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
900 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
901 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
903 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
904 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
905 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
906 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
909 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
910 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
911 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
912 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
915 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
916 shared (NFS) environment.
918 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
919 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
922 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
923 on some platforms for bit 31.
925 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
926 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
927 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
928 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
929 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
930 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
931 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
932 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
934 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
936 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
937 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
939 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
940 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
943 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
944 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
947 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
948 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
949 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
952 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
953 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
954 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
956 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
957 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
958 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
959 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
960 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
962 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
965 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
966 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
967 be requested on all coneections.
969 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
970 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
972 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
974 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
975 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
976 one for these; the option was ignored.
978 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
979 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
980 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
981 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
983 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
984 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
985 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
988 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
989 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
990 error ignored was made.
992 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
994 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
995 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
996 values, to catch one form of exploit.
998 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
999 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1000 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1002 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1003 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1006 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1007 them in our smtp response.
1009 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1010 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1011 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1012 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1013 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1015 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1016 link count into consideration.
1018 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1019 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1021 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1022 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1023 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1026 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1028 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1030 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1032 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1033 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1034 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1035 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1037 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1039 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1040 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1043 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1044 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1045 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1047 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1048 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1049 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1051 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1052 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1053 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1054 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1055 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1056 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1057 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1058 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1060 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1061 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1062 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1064 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1065 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1066 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1068 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1069 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1076 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1077 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1079 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1080 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1082 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1083 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1084 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1086 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1087 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1088 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1090 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1091 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1092 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1093 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1094 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1097 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1098 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1100 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1101 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1102 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1103 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1104 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1105 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1106 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1108 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1109 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1111 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1114 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1115 Previously this would segfault.
1117 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1120 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1121 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1122 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1123 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1124 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1125 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1127 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1129 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1130 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1131 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1132 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1134 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1136 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1137 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1138 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1139 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1141 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1143 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1145 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1146 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1147 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1149 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1150 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1151 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1153 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1155 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1156 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1157 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1158 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1160 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1161 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1162 promised '?' replacement.
1164 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1166 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1167 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1168 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1169 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1170 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1172 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1173 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1174 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1176 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1177 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1178 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1180 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1181 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1182 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1184 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1185 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1186 hope that is portable enough.
1188 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1189 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1190 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1191 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1193 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1194 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1195 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1197 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1198 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1199 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1200 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1202 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1203 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1205 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1206 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1207 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1208 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1210 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1211 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1212 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1214 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1215 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1216 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1217 the previous G, M, k.
1219 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1220 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1223 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1224 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1225 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1226 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1228 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1229 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1231 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1232 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1233 off past the nul-terimation.
1235 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1236 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1237 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1238 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1239 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1241 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1243 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1244 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1245 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1248 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1249 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1251 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1252 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1253 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1255 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1256 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1257 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1259 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1260 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1266 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1267 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1268 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1269 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1270 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1271 be defined in redis_servers.
1273 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1274 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1276 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1277 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1278 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1279 extant use locations.
1281 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1282 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1284 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1285 Previously only the last row was returned.
1287 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1288 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1289 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1290 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1293 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1294 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1295 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1296 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1297 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1298 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1299 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1300 Main pool for expansions.
1301 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1302 active in the testsuite.
1303 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1305 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1306 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1307 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1308 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1311 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1312 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1315 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1316 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1317 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1319 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1320 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1321 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1323 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1324 rows affected is given instead).
1326 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1327 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1329 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1330 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1331 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1332 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1333 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1335 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1336 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1337 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1339 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1340 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1341 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1342 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1345 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1346 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1347 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1350 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1352 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1353 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1355 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1356 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1357 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1359 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1360 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1361 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1364 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1365 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1367 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1368 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1369 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1371 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1372 for the build is renamed.
1374 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1375 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1376 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1378 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1379 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1380 result replacing the original.
1382 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1383 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1384 and the resources needed to be freed.
1386 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1388 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1391 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1392 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1393 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1394 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1396 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1397 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1399 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1400 newer versions of the scanner.
1402 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1403 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1404 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1405 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1406 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1407 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1408 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1410 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1411 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1412 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1413 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1414 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1415 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1416 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1417 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1418 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1419 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1421 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1422 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1424 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1426 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1427 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1429 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1430 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1432 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1433 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1434 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1436 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1437 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1438 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1439 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1441 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1442 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1445 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1446 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1448 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1449 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1450 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1451 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1452 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1454 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1455 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1458 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1459 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1461 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1464 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1465 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1466 "bare" representation.
1468 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1469 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1470 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1471 corrupted the output.
1477 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1478 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1479 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1480 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1482 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1483 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1485 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1486 This permits better logging.
1488 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1489 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1490 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1491 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1492 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1493 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1495 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1496 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1499 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1500 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1501 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1503 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1504 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1506 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1507 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1508 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1509 client, there is no benefit for these.
1510 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1511 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1512 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1515 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1516 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1518 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1519 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1520 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1522 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1523 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1525 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1526 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1527 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1528 signature and again for transmission.
1530 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1531 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1532 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1534 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1535 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1536 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1537 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1538 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1539 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1540 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1542 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1543 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1544 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1545 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1547 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1548 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1549 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1550 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1551 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1552 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1555 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1556 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1557 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1558 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1561 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1562 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1563 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1564 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1567 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1568 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1571 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1572 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1573 banner-time rejection.
1575 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1578 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1579 is the name of a transport.
1582 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1584 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1585 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1587 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1588 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1589 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1592 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1593 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1594 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1595 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1597 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1598 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1599 initial verify call returned a defer.
1601 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1602 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1604 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1605 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1607 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1608 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1610 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1611 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1613 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1614 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1617 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1618 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1620 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1621 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1622 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1624 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1625 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1626 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1627 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1629 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1630 and confused the parent.
1632 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1633 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1635 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1638 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1639 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1640 out-of-order delivery.
1642 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1643 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1644 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1647 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1648 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1651 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1652 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1653 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1655 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1656 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1657 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1658 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1659 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1660 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1662 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1663 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1664 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1666 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1667 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1668 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1670 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1671 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1672 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1673 though a different problem.
1679 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1680 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1682 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1684 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1685 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1687 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1688 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1690 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1691 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1692 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1693 before acknowledging the chunk.
1695 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1696 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1697 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1699 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1700 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1701 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1704 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1705 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1706 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1708 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1709 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1711 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1712 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1713 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1714 body hash calculated value.
1716 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1717 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1718 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1720 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1722 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1723 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1725 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1726 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1727 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1729 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1730 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1731 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1732 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1733 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1734 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1736 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1737 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1738 past that check, despite the cost.
1740 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1741 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1742 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1744 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1745 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1746 TLS library to consume.
1748 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1750 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1752 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1753 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1754 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1755 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1756 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1757 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1758 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1760 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1762 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1764 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1765 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1766 should be warning-free.
1768 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1770 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1771 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1773 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1774 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1775 general solution here.
1777 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1778 already-broken messages in the queue.
1780 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1782 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1788 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1789 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1791 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1792 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1793 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1795 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1796 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1797 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1798 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1799 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1800 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1801 if one fails this test.
1802 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1803 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1805 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1806 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1808 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1809 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1811 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1812 in rewrites and routers.
1814 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1815 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1817 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1818 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1820 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1822 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1825 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1826 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1827 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1828 connection after a verify cache hit.
1829 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1831 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1832 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1834 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1835 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1836 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1837 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1838 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1840 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1841 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1843 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1844 Previously they were not counted.
1846 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1847 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1848 that needed the lookup.
1850 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1851 distinguished as "(=".
1853 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1854 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1856 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1858 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1859 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1861 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1862 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1864 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1865 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1868 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1869 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1870 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1871 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1873 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1875 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1876 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1877 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1879 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1880 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1881 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1884 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1885 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1886 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1889 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1890 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1891 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1893 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1894 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1897 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1899 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1900 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1902 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1903 are not in the system include path.
1905 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1906 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1907 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1908 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1910 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1911 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1912 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1914 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1916 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1917 an incoming connection.
1919 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1922 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1923 fallback to "prime256v1".
1925 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1926 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1932 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1933 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1934 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1935 client dropping the TLS connection.
1937 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1938 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1940 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1941 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1942 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1943 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1946 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1947 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1948 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1949 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1950 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1951 check on the next write.
1953 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1954 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1955 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1956 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1957 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1959 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1960 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1962 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1963 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1964 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1966 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1967 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1968 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1969 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1971 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1972 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1974 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1975 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1977 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1978 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1979 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1982 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1984 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1986 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1988 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1989 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1991 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1992 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1994 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1996 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1997 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1999 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2001 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2002 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2004 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2006 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2007 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2008 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2009 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2010 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2011 they will retry in-clear.
2012 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2013 at installation time.
2015 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2016 with the $config_file variable.
2018 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2019 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2020 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2021 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2022 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2024 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2025 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2026 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2027 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2028 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2030 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2032 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2033 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2034 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2035 list order is no longer honoured.
2037 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2038 for DKIM processing.
2040 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2041 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2043 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2044 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2045 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2046 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2048 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2049 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2051 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2052 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2054 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2055 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2057 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2059 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2060 cached by the daemon.
2062 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2063 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2065 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2066 keys are given for lookup.
2068 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2069 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2070 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2071 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2073 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2074 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2075 server-side so match that on older versions.
2077 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2078 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2079 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2081 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2082 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2084 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2085 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2086 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2087 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2088 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2089 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2090 initial truncated version.
2092 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2094 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2096 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2097 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2099 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2101 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2103 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2104 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2107 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2108 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2111 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2112 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2114 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2115 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2118 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2119 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2120 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2122 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2123 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2124 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2125 extraction. Accept either.
2131 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2134 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2136 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2139 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2140 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2141 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2142 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2144 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2145 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2146 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2148 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2149 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2150 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2153 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2156 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2157 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2158 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2159 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2160 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2162 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2163 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2164 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2166 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2168 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2169 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2171 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2172 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2174 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2177 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2178 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2180 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2181 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2182 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2184 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2185 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2186 specify a port-range.
2188 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2189 timeout value per server.
2191 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2192 now have the list separator specified.
2194 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2197 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2200 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2202 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2203 rather than the verbs used.
2205 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2206 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2208 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2210 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2211 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2213 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2214 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2216 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2217 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2219 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2221 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2223 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2224 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2225 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2226 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2228 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2230 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2231 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2233 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2234 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2236 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2238 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2240 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2242 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2243 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2245 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2246 added for tls authenticator.
2248 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2254 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2255 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2256 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2257 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2258 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2259 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2260 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2262 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2263 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2264 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2265 function when detected.
2267 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2268 cause callback expansion.
2270 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2271 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2272 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2273 instead of bool when processing it.
2275 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2276 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2278 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2280 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2282 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2284 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2285 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2287 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2288 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2289 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2290 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2291 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2292 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2294 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2295 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2298 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2299 version 3.3.6 or later.
2301 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2302 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2303 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2304 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2305 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2306 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2309 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2310 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2312 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2313 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2314 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2317 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2318 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2319 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2321 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2322 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2324 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2325 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2328 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2330 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2331 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2333 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2334 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2337 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2339 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2342 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2343 output list separator was used.
2348 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2349 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2352 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2353 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2355 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2357 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2358 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2364 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2366 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2367 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2368 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2369 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2370 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2371 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2373 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2374 utilities have not been installed.
2376 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2377 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2379 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2380 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2382 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2383 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2384 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2385 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2387 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2389 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2390 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2392 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2395 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2397 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2398 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2399 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2401 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2402 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2403 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2404 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2405 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2406 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2408 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2410 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2411 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2413 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2416 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2418 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2420 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2421 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2423 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2424 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2426 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2428 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2430 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2431 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2433 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2434 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2435 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2437 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2438 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2439 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2442 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2444 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2445 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2448 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2449 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2452 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2453 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2455 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2456 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2458 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2460 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2461 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2462 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2464 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2465 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2467 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2468 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2471 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2472 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2473 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2475 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2477 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2478 Christian Aistleitner.
2480 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2482 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2483 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2485 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2486 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2488 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2489 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2491 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2492 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2494 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2495 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2497 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2498 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2499 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2501 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2503 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2504 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2507 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2509 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2510 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2517 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2519 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2520 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2522 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2525 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2526 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2529 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2531 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2532 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2533 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2534 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2535 using channel bindings instead).
2537 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2538 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2539 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2540 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2541 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2544 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2546 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2548 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2549 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2551 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2552 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2553 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2555 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2557 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2559 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2560 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2562 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2564 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2566 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2568 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2569 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2571 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2573 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2574 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2577 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2578 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2580 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2581 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2584 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2586 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2588 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2589 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2591 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2594 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2595 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2597 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2598 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2600 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2602 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2604 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2607 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2610 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2612 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2613 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2614 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2615 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2617 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2619 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2620 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2621 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2622 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2625 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2626 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2627 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2629 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2630 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2631 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2632 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2634 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2635 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2636 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2637 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2638 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2639 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2640 delivery, as in LMTP.
2642 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2643 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2645 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2647 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2651 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2652 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2653 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2654 username as equal to the username.
2656 This change corrects that bug.
2658 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2659 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2660 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2662 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2664 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2665 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2666 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2667 NULL dereference and crash.
2669 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2671 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2672 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2673 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2675 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2677 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2678 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2679 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2680 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2681 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2682 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2683 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2684 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2685 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2686 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2687 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2689 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2690 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2692 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2693 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2696 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2697 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2698 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2699 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2700 an empty string is now equivalent.
2702 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2703 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2704 not performing validation itself.
2706 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2707 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2709 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2712 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2714 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2715 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2716 other false fix of the same issue.
2717 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2720 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2721 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2723 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2724 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2725 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2727 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2728 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2729 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2731 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2733 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2735 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2736 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2738 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2741 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2742 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2743 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2744 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2745 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2747 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2748 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2750 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2751 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2754 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2755 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2756 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2757 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2759 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2761 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2762 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2763 from multiple comments on this bug.
2765 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2767 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2768 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2771 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2772 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2774 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2775 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2781 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2783 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2789 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2790 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2791 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2793 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2795 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2798 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2800 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2802 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2804 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2805 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2807 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2808 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2810 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2811 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2813 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2814 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2815 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2817 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2819 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2820 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2822 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2824 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2826 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2827 non-compliant senders.
2828 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2830 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2831 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2832 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2834 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2835 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2836 in spool file corruption.
2838 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2839 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2840 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2843 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2844 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2845 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2847 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2848 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2850 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2852 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2854 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2856 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2857 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2858 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2860 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2861 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2862 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2863 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2865 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2866 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2868 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2869 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2870 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2871 resolver implementation change.
2873 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2874 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2876 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2878 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2880 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2881 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2883 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2884 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2886 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2887 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2889 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2890 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2891 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2892 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2893 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2895 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2897 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2898 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2899 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2901 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2903 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2904 read-only, out of scope).
2905 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2907 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2908 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2909 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2910 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2912 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2914 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2915 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2916 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2917 real issues in debug logging.
2919 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2920 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2922 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2923 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2924 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2926 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2927 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2928 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2931 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2932 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2934 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2935 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2936 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2937 needs to override this, it can.
2939 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2940 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2941 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2943 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2944 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2945 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2946 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2948 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2954 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2955 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2957 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2959 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2962 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2963 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2965 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2966 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2967 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2969 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2970 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2971 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2972 not safe for signals.
2974 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2975 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2976 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2977 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2980 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2982 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2983 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2984 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2985 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2986 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2988 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2989 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2990 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2991 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2992 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2993 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2995 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2996 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2997 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2998 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3000 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3001 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3002 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3003 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3005 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3006 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3007 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3008 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3009 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3010 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3011 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3012 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3013 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3015 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3016 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3017 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3018 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3020 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3021 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3022 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3023 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3024 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3025 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3026 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3027 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3028 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3029 details in the main documentation.
3031 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3033 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3035 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3036 repository when doing development or release builds.
3038 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3039 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3041 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3042 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3045 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3047 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3048 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3050 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3051 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3053 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3054 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3056 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3057 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3059 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3060 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3062 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3064 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3067 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3068 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3069 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3071 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3073 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3075 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3076 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3082 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3084 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3085 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3087 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3089 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3091 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3094 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3095 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3097 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3098 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3100 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3101 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3103 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3106 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3107 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3109 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3110 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3111 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3112 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3114 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3115 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3121 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3124 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3125 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3126 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3128 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3129 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3131 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3132 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3133 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3135 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3136 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3138 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3139 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3141 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3142 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3144 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3145 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3147 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3148 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3150 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3153 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3154 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3156 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3157 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3159 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3160 SQL string expansion failure details.
3161 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3163 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3164 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3166 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3167 extern declarations in function scope.
3168 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3170 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3171 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3172 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3175 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3176 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3178 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3179 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3181 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3182 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3184 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3185 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3187 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3188 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3191 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3193 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3195 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3196 Patch by Simon Arlott
3198 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3199 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3205 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3206 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3208 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3209 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3211 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3213 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3214 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3215 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3217 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3218 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3219 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3221 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3222 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3223 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3224 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3226 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3227 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3228 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3229 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3231 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3232 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3233 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3236 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3239 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3240 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3241 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3242 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3243 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3249 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3250 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3251 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3253 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3254 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3256 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3258 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3260 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3262 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3264 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3266 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3267 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3268 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3269 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3271 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3272 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3273 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3274 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3275 more caution in buffer sizes.
3277 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3279 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3281 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3283 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3285 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3287 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3289 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3291 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3292 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3293 ignore trailing whitespace.
3295 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3297 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3300 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3301 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3303 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3304 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3305 Notification from John Horne.
3307 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3310 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3311 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3314 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3317 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3318 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3319 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3321 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3322 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3323 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3326 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3327 option (effectively making it always true).
3329 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3330 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3332 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3333 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3335 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3336 run-time user, instead of root.
3338 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3339 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3341 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3342 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3345 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3346 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3347 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3349 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3351 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3357 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3358 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3361 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3362 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3365 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3366 Patch from Alain Williams
3368 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3370 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3371 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3373 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3374 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3376 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3378 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3380 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3381 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3383 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3385 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3387 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3388 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3389 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3391 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3392 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3394 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3395 Patch by Simon Arlott
3397 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3398 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3404 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3406 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3408 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3410 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3412 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3418 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3419 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3421 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3422 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3425 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3426 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3427 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3429 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3430 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3432 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3433 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3434 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3435 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3437 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3438 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3439 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3441 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3443 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3445 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3446 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3448 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3450 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3451 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3452 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3453 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3455 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3456 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3458 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3460 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3462 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3463 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3465 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3466 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3468 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3469 that they are available at delivery time.
3471 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3473 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3474 incoming_port log selectors.
3476 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3477 setting expands to an empty string.
3479 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3480 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3482 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3483 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3485 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3486 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3488 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3489 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3491 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3492 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3494 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3495 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3497 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3499 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3500 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3502 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3503 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3505 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3507 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3508 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3510 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3512 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3514 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3517 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3518 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3520 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3521 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3523 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3524 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3526 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3527 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3529 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3530 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3532 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3533 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3535 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3536 plus update to original patch.
3538 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3540 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3541 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3543 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3545 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3547 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3549 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3551 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3552 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3554 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3555 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3557 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3558 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3560 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3561 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3563 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3565 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3567 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3569 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3575 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3576 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3577 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3579 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3580 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3581 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3582 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3583 build errors in sieve.c.
3585 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3586 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3587 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3589 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3591 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3593 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3595 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3601 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3603 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3604 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3605 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3606 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3607 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3608 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3609 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3610 for iplsearch lookups.
3612 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3613 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3614 previously such lookups could never work.
3616 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3617 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3618 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3620 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3623 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3624 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3625 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3626 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3627 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3628 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3630 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3631 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3633 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3634 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3635 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3636 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3637 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3638 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3640 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3643 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3645 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3646 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3649 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3650 by clients under certain conditions.
3652 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3653 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3655 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3657 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3658 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3660 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3662 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3664 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3666 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3667 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3669 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3671 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3672 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3674 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3676 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3678 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3679 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3680 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3681 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3683 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3684 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3685 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3687 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3688 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3690 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3692 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3694 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3696 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3697 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3698 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3704 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3705 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3708 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3709 issue a MAIL command.
3711 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3713 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3715 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3716 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3717 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3718 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3719 item. This has been fixed.
3721 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3722 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3724 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3725 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3727 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3728 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3729 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3731 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3733 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3734 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3735 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3736 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3737 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3739 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3740 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3741 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3743 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3744 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3745 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3746 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3748 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3750 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3752 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3753 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3754 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3755 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3756 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3758 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3760 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3761 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3762 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3765 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3767 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3769 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3771 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3773 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3775 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3776 no_callout_flush is set.
3778 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3779 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3780 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3783 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3785 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3786 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3787 other ACL rejections are.
3789 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3790 with slight modification.
3792 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3793 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3795 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3796 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3799 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3800 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3802 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3804 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3805 expansion side effects.
3807 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3808 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3809 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3812 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3813 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3814 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3816 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3817 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3818 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3819 were accidentally chopped off.
3821 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3822 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3823 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3824 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3825 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3826 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3827 pipelining has not been advertised.
3829 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3831 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3832 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3833 This has been fixed.
3835 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3836 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3837 reported on Solaris.
3839 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3840 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3841 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3842 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3843 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3844 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3845 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3847 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3850 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3852 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3854 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3855 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3856 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3857 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3858 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3859 criteria to be more general.
3861 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3862 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3863 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3864 host_all_ignored option.
3866 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3867 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3868 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3869 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3870 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3871 is what is supposed to happen).
3873 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3874 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3875 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3876 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3877 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3880 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3881 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3882 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3883 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3884 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3885 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3888 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3890 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3891 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3893 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3894 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3896 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3898 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3900 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3901 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3902 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3903 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3904 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3905 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3906 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3907 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3908 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3909 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3910 least in a lot of common cases.
3912 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3913 advertised in response to EHLO.
3919 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3920 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3922 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3923 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3925 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3926 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3927 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3929 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3930 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3931 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3932 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3933 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3939 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3940 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3943 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3944 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3945 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3947 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3948 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3949 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3950 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3951 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3952 rather than extend the field.
3958 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3959 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3960 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3961 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3964 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3965 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3966 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3968 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3969 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3970 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3972 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3973 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3974 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3977 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3978 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3979 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3980 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3981 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3982 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3983 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3984 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3985 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3986 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3987 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3989 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3992 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3993 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3994 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3995 ignores EPIPE as well.
3997 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3998 (quoted-printable decoding).
4000 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4001 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4003 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4005 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4007 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4009 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4010 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4012 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4015 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4016 miscellaneous code fixes
4018 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4021 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4022 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4023 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4024 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4025 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4026 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4027 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4028 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4030 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4031 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4032 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4033 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4035 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4036 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4037 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4038 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4039 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4040 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4041 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4042 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4043 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4045 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4048 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4049 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4050 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4051 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4052 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4053 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4054 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4055 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4057 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4058 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4061 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4062 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4063 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4064 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4065 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4066 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4067 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4068 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4069 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4070 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4071 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4072 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4073 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4075 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4076 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4077 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4078 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4079 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4080 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4081 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4083 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4084 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4085 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4086 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4087 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4088 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4089 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4090 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4091 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4092 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4094 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4095 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4096 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4097 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4098 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4100 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4101 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4102 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4103 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4104 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4105 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4106 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4108 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4109 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4110 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4111 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4112 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4113 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4116 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4117 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4118 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4121 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4122 if any retry times were supplied.
4124 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4125 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4126 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4128 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4130 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4132 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4133 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4134 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4135 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4136 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4137 before) are ignored.
4139 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4140 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4142 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4143 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4144 committing the later change.]
4146 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4147 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4148 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4149 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4150 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4151 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4152 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4153 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4154 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4156 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4157 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4158 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4159 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4160 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4161 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4162 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4163 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4164 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4166 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4167 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4168 hammering the server.
4170 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4171 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4173 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4175 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4176 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4177 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4179 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4180 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4181 one case where this was not true.
4183 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4184 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4185 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4186 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4189 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4190 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4191 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4192 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4193 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4194 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4195 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4196 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4197 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4200 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4201 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4202 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4203 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4205 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4206 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4208 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4209 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4210 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4212 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4214 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4216 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4218 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4219 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4220 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4221 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4223 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4224 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4226 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4227 be meaningful with "accept".
4229 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4230 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4232 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4233 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4234 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4236 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4237 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4238 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4239 there is data to show.
4240 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4242 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4243 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4244 as well as the number of messages.
4246 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4247 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4248 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4250 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4251 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4252 have a flag are now skipped.
4254 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4255 Added the -emptyok flag.
4257 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4258 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4260 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4261 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4262 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4264 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4267 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4268 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4270 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4272 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4273 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4275 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4277 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4278 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4279 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4280 contravention of the specifications.
4282 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4283 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4284 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4286 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4287 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4288 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4290 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4292 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4293 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4294 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4295 some point in the past.
4297 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4298 transport during callout processing was broken.
4300 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4301 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4303 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4304 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4306 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4307 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4309 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4315 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4316 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4318 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4319 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4320 there is data to show.
4321 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4323 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4324 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4326 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4327 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4329 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4330 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4332 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4333 submissions from trusted users.
4335 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4336 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4338 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4339 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4340 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4341 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4342 there is now a framework to start from.
4344 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4345 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4346 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4348 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4350 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4352 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4354 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4355 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4356 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4358 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4361 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4362 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4363 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4365 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4366 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4367 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4370 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4371 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4372 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4373 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4374 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4376 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4377 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4379 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4381 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4382 operations in malware.c.
4384 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4387 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4388 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4389 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4392 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4393 statements to "add_header".
4395 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4396 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4398 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4399 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4402 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4406 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4407 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4408 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4411 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4412 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4414 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4415 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4417 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4418 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4419 any possible encoding problems.
4421 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4422 but not after initializing Perl.
4424 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4425 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4426 apparently, which is not desirable.
4428 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4431 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4434 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4436 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4437 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4438 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4439 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4441 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4442 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4443 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4445 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4446 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4447 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4450 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4451 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4452 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4453 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4454 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4460 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4461 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4463 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4466 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4467 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4468 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4469 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4470 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4471 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4472 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4473 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4476 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4478 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4479 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4480 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4482 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4483 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4484 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4487 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4488 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4490 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4491 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4492 option (which defaults to 0600).
4494 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4496 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4497 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4498 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4499 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4500 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4501 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4502 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4504 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4510 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4511 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4512 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4513 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4514 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4515 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4518 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4519 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4521 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4523 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4524 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4525 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4526 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4527 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4530 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4531 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4533 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4534 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4535 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4536 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4537 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4539 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4540 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4541 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4542 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4544 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4545 be the same on different OS.
4547 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4550 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4551 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4553 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4556 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4557 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4558 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4559 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4560 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4561 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4564 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4565 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4566 when Exim was called.
4568 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4569 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4571 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4572 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4573 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4574 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4576 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4577 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4578 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4579 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4582 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4583 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4584 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4586 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4587 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4588 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4590 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4593 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4594 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4595 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4596 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4597 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4598 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4599 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4600 values from the SRV records were lost.
4602 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4603 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4604 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4606 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4607 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4608 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4610 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4611 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4612 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4613 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4614 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4615 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4616 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4617 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4618 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4619 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4621 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4622 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4623 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4625 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4626 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4628 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4629 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4630 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4631 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4634 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4635 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4636 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4638 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4639 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4640 PH/23 above applies.
4642 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4643 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4644 (for which there is an explicit test).
4646 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4648 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4649 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4650 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4651 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4652 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4654 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4655 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4656 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4657 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4659 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4660 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4661 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4663 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4665 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4667 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4668 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4669 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4671 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4672 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4673 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4674 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4675 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4677 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4678 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4679 the message gets confusing).
4681 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4682 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4683 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4684 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4686 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4687 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4688 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4689 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4692 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4693 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4694 the different processes.
4696 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4698 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4700 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4701 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4703 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4704 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4706 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4707 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4708 messages matching specified criteria.
4710 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4712 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4713 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4715 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4716 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4717 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4718 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4719 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4720 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4721 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4722 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4723 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4724 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4726 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4727 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4728 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4730 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4732 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4733 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4734 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4735 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4736 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4737 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4738 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4741 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4742 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4744 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4746 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4748 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4750 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4751 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4752 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4753 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4754 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4755 size of the count of files.
4757 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4759 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4762 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4763 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4764 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4765 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4767 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4768 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4769 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4771 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4772 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4773 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4774 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4775 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4777 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4778 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4780 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4781 will now be deprecated.
4783 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4785 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4786 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4787 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4789 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4790 with very large, slow to parse queues
4792 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4794 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4796 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4797 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4798 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4801 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4802 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4803 Sieve code now uses this.
4805 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4806 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4808 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4809 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4811 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4813 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4814 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4815 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4816 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4817 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4819 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4820 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4821 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4822 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4824 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4826 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4828 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4829 is preferred over IPv4.
4831 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4832 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4833 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4834 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4835 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4836 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4837 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4839 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4840 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4841 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4843 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4845 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4846 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4847 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4848 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4849 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4850 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4851 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4852 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4853 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4854 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4855 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4857 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4858 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4859 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4865 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4867 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4868 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4870 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4871 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4872 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4874 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4876 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4879 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4882 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4883 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4884 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4887 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4888 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4890 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4891 inside the third argument.
4893 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4894 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4897 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4898 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4900 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4901 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4903 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4905 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4906 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4909 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4911 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4912 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4913 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4914 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4915 identical. For example:
4917 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4919 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4920 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4921 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4923 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4924 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4925 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4926 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4928 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4929 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4930 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4933 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4935 o fixes some comments
4936 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4937 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4938 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4939 and documents the missing references header update
4943 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4944 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4947 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4948 Electronic Mail") by including:
4950 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4952 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4953 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4954 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4955 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4956 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4958 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4960 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4962 The auto-replied keyword:
4964 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4965 message by an automatic process,
4967 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4969 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4970 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4972 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4973 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4976 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4977 to the default Received: header definition.
4979 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4981 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4982 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4983 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4985 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4986 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4987 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4989 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4990 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4991 and treats the condition as false.
4993 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4995 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4996 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4997 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4998 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4999 not changing the active code.
5001 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5002 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5004 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5005 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5007 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5010 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5011 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5012 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5013 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5014 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5015 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5016 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5017 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5018 the text comparison.
5020 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5021 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5022 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5023 The same fix has been applied.
5029 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5030 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5033 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5034 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5036 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5038 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5039 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5040 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5041 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5042 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5044 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5045 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5046 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5047 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5050 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5058 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5059 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5061 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5063 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5065 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5066 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5067 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5069 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5070 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5071 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5073 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5074 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5077 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5078 ${stat: expansion item.
5080 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5081 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5083 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5084 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5087 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5089 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5092 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5093 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5095 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5097 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5098 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5099 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5100 the end of the subprocess.
5102 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5103 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5104 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5105 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5106 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5108 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5110 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5112 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5113 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5115 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5117 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5119 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5120 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5123 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5125 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5126 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5127 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5129 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5130 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5132 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5133 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5135 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5136 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5138 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5139 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5141 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5142 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5143 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5144 contributed by a Radius user.
5146 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5147 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5149 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5150 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5152 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5155 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5156 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5159 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5160 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5161 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5162 header lines when this was not necessary.
5164 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5166 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5167 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5168 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5171 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5174 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5175 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5176 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5177 return code was incorrect.
5179 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5181 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5183 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5185 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5187 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5188 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5189 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5190 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5191 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5194 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5196 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5197 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5198 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5199 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5200 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5201 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5202 which is clearly wrong.
5204 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5206 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5207 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5208 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5211 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5212 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5214 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5216 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5217 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5219 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5220 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5222 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5223 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5225 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5226 recipients, not senders.
5228 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5229 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5231 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5233 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5235 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5236 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5237 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5238 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5240 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5242 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5243 clock is set back in time.
5245 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5246 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5248 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5249 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5251 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5252 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5255 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5256 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5259 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5262 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5264 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5265 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5266 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5268 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5269 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5270 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5271 helo verification defer as a failure.
5273 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5274 actual error message.
5280 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5282 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5283 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5284 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5285 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5287 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5289 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5290 can still be requested.
5292 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5293 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5294 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5295 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5297 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5298 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5299 circumstances, but probably never did.
5301 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5302 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5303 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5306 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5308 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5309 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5311 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5313 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5315 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5316 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5317 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5318 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5319 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5320 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5322 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5323 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5324 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5325 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5326 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5327 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5329 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5330 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5332 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5333 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5335 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5336 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5338 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5340 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5342 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5344 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5346 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5348 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5350 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5352 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5353 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5354 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5356 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5357 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5358 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5359 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5361 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5362 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5363 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5365 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5366 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5367 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5368 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5370 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5371 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5374 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5375 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5376 should work with maildirs and everything.
5378 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5379 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5381 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5384 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5385 function for BDB 4.3.
5387 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5389 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5390 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5393 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5394 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5395 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5396 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5397 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5398 formatting function string_vformat().
5400 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5401 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5402 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5403 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5404 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5405 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5406 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5407 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5409 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5410 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5413 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5414 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5416 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5417 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5418 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5419 test. It is now used for both.
5421 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5422 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5423 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5424 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5425 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5426 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5428 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5429 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5430 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5433 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5434 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5435 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5437 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5438 experimental DomainKeys support:
5440 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5441 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5442 the control was given.
5444 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5446 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5448 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5450 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5451 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5452 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5455 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5456 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5457 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5458 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5459 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5460 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5463 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5464 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5465 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5466 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5467 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5468 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5470 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5471 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5472 do -d+all out of habit.
5474 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5475 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5478 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5479 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5480 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5481 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5482 record types that Exim uses.
5484 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5485 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5486 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5487 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5488 non-existent file that was broken.
5490 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5491 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5493 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5494 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5495 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5497 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5499 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5500 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5501 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5502 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5503 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5506 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5507 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5508 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5509 at a slight CPU cost.
5511 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5512 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5514 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5517 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5519 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5520 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5526 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5527 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5529 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5531 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5533 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5534 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5536 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5537 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5538 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5539 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5540 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5541 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5544 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5545 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5546 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5547 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5550 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5551 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5552 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5553 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5554 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5555 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5556 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5559 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5560 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5562 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5563 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5564 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5565 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5566 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5567 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5569 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5570 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5571 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5572 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5574 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5577 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5578 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5580 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5581 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5582 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5583 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5586 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5588 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5589 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5591 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5592 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5593 to what was transported.)
5595 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5597 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5598 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5599 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5600 spamd_address settings.
5602 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5603 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5604 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5605 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5606 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5608 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5610 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5611 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5612 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5613 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5614 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5616 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5617 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5619 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5620 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5621 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5622 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5623 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5624 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5625 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5628 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5629 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5630 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5631 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5632 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5633 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5634 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5637 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5639 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5640 driver and ACL definitions.
5642 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5643 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5645 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5646 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5647 understands it better than I do:
5649 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5650 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5652 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5653 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5654 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5655 => three warnings about OTP not working
5656 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5658 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5659 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5660 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5661 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5663 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5664 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5666 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5667 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5668 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5670 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5671 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5674 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5675 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5678 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5679 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5680 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5682 warn !verify = sender
5683 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5685 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5686 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5688 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5690 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5691 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5693 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5694 nomenclature these days.)
5696 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5697 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5699 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5700 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5701 . First host does not offer TLS;
5702 . First host accepts first address;
5703 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5704 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5705 . Second host accepts second address.
5706 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5707 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5710 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5711 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5712 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5713 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5714 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5716 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5717 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5719 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5720 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5722 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5723 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5724 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5726 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5727 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5730 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5732 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5733 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5734 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5735 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5736 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5737 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5738 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5740 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5741 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5742 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5743 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5744 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5746 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5747 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5750 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5751 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5752 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5753 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5754 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5755 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5757 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5759 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5760 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5761 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5762 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5763 printable escape sequences.
5765 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5766 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5769 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5770 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5773 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5774 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5775 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5776 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5777 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5779 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5780 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5781 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5783 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5785 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5786 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5789 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5790 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5791 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5792 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5793 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5794 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5795 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5796 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5797 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5800 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5801 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5802 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5803 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5807 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5808 ----------------------------------------
5810 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5811 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5812 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5813 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5814 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5815 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5818 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5819 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5820 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5821 historical information.
5827 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5829 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5830 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5832 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5833 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5836 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5837 filter fails to execute.
5839 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5840 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5841 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5842 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5843 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5845 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5847 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5848 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5849 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5850 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5852 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5853 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5854 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5855 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5856 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5858 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5860 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5862 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5863 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5864 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5865 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5867 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5868 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5869 sender verification.
5871 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5872 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5874 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5876 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5879 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5880 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5882 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5883 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5885 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5886 information about exactly what failed.
5888 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5890 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5891 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5892 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5894 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5895 It is now set to "smtps".
5897 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5898 ignore_target_hosts.
5900 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5901 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5902 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5903 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5906 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5907 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5908 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5910 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5911 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5912 wake it up if nothing else does.
5914 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5915 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5916 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5919 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5920 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5922 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5924 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5925 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5926 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5927 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5928 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5929 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5930 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5931 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5933 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5934 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5935 than one IP address.
5937 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5938 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5939 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5940 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5942 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5943 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5944 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5945 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5946 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5949 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5950 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5951 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5952 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5954 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5955 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5958 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5959 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5960 $sender_host_address.
5962 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5963 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5964 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5965 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5966 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5969 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5971 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5972 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5974 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5975 just the host names, not the priorities.
5977 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5978 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5979 controlled by a keyword.
5981 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5982 multiple records are returned.
5984 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5985 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5988 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5990 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5991 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5993 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5994 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5995 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5997 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5999 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6001 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6003 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6004 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6005 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6006 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6007 because the tests only now provoked it.
6009 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6010 (this can affect the format of dates).
6012 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6013 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6014 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6015 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6017 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6019 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6020 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6021 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6022 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6024 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6025 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6026 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6028 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6031 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6032 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6033 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6034 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6035 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6036 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6039 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6040 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6041 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6044 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6045 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6046 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6048 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6049 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6050 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6051 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6052 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6053 so I produce this patch..."
6055 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6056 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6059 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6060 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6061 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6062 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6065 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6067 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6068 long debug lines gets shown.
6070 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6071 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6073 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6075 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6076 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6077 of $primary_hostname.
6079 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6080 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6081 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6082 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6083 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6084 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6085 by change 4.50/55 above.
6087 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6088 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6089 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6090 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6091 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6092 running as the user.
6095 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6096 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6097 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6100 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6101 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6103 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6104 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6105 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6106 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6107 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6109 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6110 This has been fixed.
6112 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6113 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6114 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6115 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6118 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6120 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6121 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6122 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6123 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6125 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6126 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6128 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6129 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6130 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6132 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6133 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6134 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6137 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6138 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6139 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6141 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6142 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6143 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6144 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6146 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6147 during host lookups.
6149 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6150 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6152 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6154 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6155 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6156 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6157 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6158 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6161 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6162 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6164 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6165 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6166 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6168 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6170 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6171 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6172 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6173 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6174 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6175 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6178 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6179 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6180 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6181 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6182 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6184 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6187 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6189 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6190 "vacation" handling.
6192 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6193 OS variants using glibc.
6195 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6198 ----------------------------------------------------
6199 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6200 ----------------------------------------------------
6206 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6207 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6210 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6211 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6214 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6215 filter fails to execute.
6217 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6218 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6219 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6220 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6221 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6223 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6224 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6225 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6226 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6228 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6229 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6230 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6231 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6232 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6234 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6236 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6237 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6238 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6239 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6241 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6242 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6243 sender verification.
6245 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6246 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6248 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6249 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6251 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6252 ignore_target_hosts.
6254 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6255 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6256 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6257 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6260 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6261 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6262 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6264 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6265 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6266 wake it up if nothing else does.
6268 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6269 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6270 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6273 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6274 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6276 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6278 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6279 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6282 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6283 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6286 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6287 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6288 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6289 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6290 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6293 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6294 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6297 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6298 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6299 $sender_host_address.
6301 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6303 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6304 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6305 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6307 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6310 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6311 (this can affect the format of dates).
6313 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6314 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6315 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6316 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6318 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6319 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6320 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6322 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6323 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6324 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6325 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6327 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6328 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6329 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6331 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6334 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6335 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6336 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6337 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6338 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6339 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6342 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6343 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6344 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6345 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6348 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6349 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6350 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6351 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6352 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6353 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6354 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6356 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6357 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6358 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6359 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6360 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6361 running as the user.
6364 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6365 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6366 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6369 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6370 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6371 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6372 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6373 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6375 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6376 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6377 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6378 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6381 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6382 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6383 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6384 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6385 because the tests only now provoked it.
6391 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6392 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6393 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6394 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6395 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6396 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6397 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6399 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6400 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6403 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6405 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6407 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6408 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6411 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6412 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6413 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6414 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6415 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6417 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6418 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6420 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6422 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6424 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6427 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6428 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6430 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6431 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6432 affecting debugging statements).
6434 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6436 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6437 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6438 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6439 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6440 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6441 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6442 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6443 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6444 after the received time, and all would be well.
6446 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6447 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6448 condition in an expansion string.
6450 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6452 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6453 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6454 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6455 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6456 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6457 job under whatever limits there are.
6459 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6461 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6464 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6465 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6466 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6467 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6470 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6471 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6472 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6473 binary data in such strings.
6475 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6477 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6478 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6479 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6480 failure, which is pointless.
6482 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6484 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6486 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6487 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6488 Sender: header lines.
6490 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6491 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6492 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6494 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6495 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6496 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6497 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6498 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6501 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6502 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6503 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6504 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6505 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6507 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6508 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6509 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6512 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6513 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6515 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6516 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6518 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6520 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6522 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6524 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6527 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6529 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6531 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6532 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6533 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6534 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6536 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6537 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6543 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6544 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6545 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6547 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6548 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6549 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6550 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6551 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6552 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6554 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6555 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6556 verification failure".
6558 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6559 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6560 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6561 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6563 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6564 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6565 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6566 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6567 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6568 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6569 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6570 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6571 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6572 treated as a timeout.
6574 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6575 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6576 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6577 not set for Exim filters).
6579 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6580 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6581 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6583 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6585 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6586 try to make them clearer.
6588 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6589 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6591 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6593 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6595 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6596 only the Cygwin environment.
6598 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6599 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6600 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6601 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6602 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6604 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6605 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6606 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6607 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6608 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6609 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6610 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6612 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6613 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6615 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6617 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6618 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6619 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6621 To: susanne@some.where
6623 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6624 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6625 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6626 of addresses in From: header lines).
6628 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6629 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6630 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6632 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6633 treated as non-personal.
6635 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6636 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6638 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6640 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6642 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6643 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6644 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6646 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6647 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6649 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6650 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6651 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6652 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6653 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6654 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6656 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6657 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6658 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6659 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6660 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6661 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6662 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6663 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6665 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6667 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6668 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6670 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6671 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6672 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6674 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6675 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6677 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6678 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6679 rather than long int.
6681 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6683 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6689 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6690 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6691 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6692 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6693 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6694 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6700 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6701 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6703 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6704 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6705 socklen_t is defined.
6707 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6710 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6713 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6714 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6715 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6716 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6717 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6719 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6720 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6721 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6722 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6724 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6725 of flapping under certain conditions.
6727 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6728 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6729 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6731 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6733 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6735 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6736 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6737 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6738 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6740 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6741 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6742 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6743 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6744 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6745 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6746 preserved with the message after it was received.
6748 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6749 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6750 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6751 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6752 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6753 test suite worked just fine.
6755 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6756 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6757 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6759 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6760 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6763 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6764 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6765 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6766 does not fully solve it.
6768 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6769 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6770 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6771 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6772 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6774 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6775 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6776 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6778 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6779 string, for example:
6781 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6783 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6784 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6785 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6786 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6787 the routers could not see them.
6789 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6790 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6792 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6793 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6796 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6797 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6798 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6799 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6800 that needed quoting.
6802 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6803 was not being matched caselessly.
6805 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6808 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6809 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6810 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6811 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6812 when use_sender is false.
6814 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6816 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6818 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6820 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6821 the configuration file.
6823 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6824 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6826 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6828 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6829 bytes in the message body.
6831 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6832 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6835 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6837 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6839 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6840 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6841 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6842 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6849 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6850 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6852 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6853 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6854 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6855 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6856 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6858 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6859 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6861 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6862 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6863 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6865 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6866 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6867 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6869 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6872 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6873 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6874 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6875 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6876 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6877 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6878 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6884 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6885 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6886 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6887 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6888 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6889 default (and expected) setting.
6891 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6892 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6893 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6894 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6896 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6897 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6899 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6902 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6903 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6904 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6905 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6906 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6907 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6909 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6910 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6911 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6913 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6914 part (NOT match_host).
6916 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6918 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6919 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6920 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6921 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6922 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6923 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6924 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6925 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6926 the same named file.
6928 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6929 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6932 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6933 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6934 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6935 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6938 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6939 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6940 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6942 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6944 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6946 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6948 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6949 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6951 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6952 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6953 before starting the TLS session.
6955 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6957 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6958 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6960 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6961 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6962 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6963 colon in the middle).
6969 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6970 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6971 multiple configurations are in use.
6973 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6974 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6975 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6976 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6977 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6978 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6980 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6981 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6983 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6984 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6985 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6987 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6988 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6991 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6992 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6994 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6996 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6997 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6999 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7007 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7008 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7009 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7010 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7011 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7013 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7016 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7017 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7018 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7019 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7020 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7021 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7023 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7024 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7025 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7026 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7027 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7028 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7029 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7032 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7033 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7034 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7035 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7036 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7038 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7040 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7041 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7042 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7044 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7046 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7047 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7048 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7051 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7052 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7054 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7055 Three changes have been made:
7057 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7058 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7059 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7060 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7061 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7063 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7066 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7067 the modified behaviour.
7073 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7076 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7077 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7079 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7080 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7081 try to track down a specific problem.
7083 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7084 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7085 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7087 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7090 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7091 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7092 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7093 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7094 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7095 some earlier ones do not.
7097 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7099 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7100 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7101 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7102 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7103 address literals are enabled, of course).
7105 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7107 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7108 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7109 by a command such as
7113 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7115 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7117 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7118 remained set. It is now erased.
7120 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7121 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7123 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7124 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7125 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7126 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7127 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7128 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7129 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7130 appropriate error code.
7132 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7133 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7134 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7135 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7136 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7137 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7139 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7140 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7141 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7143 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7144 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7145 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7146 terminate the header.
7148 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7149 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7150 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7152 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7153 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7154 (4.30/29). In particular:
7156 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7159 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7160 to write a maildirsize file.
7162 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7163 the transport, the new value overrides.
7165 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7168 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7169 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7170 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7173 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7174 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7175 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7178 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7179 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7180 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7182 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7183 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7186 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7187 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7188 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7190 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7192 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7194 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7196 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7197 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7200 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7201 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7202 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7203 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7204 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7205 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7206 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7209 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7210 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7211 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7212 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7213 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7216 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7217 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7218 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7219 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7220 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7221 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7222 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7223 cached value only when the same options are set.
7225 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7227 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7228 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7229 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7230 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7231 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7233 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7234 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7235 it is clearly obsolete.
7237 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7240 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7241 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7242 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7245 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7246 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7247 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7248 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7249 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7251 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7252 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7253 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7254 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7256 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7258 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7260 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7261 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7264 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7265 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7266 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7267 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7268 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7269 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7272 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7273 with the -f command-line option.
7275 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7276 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7277 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7278 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7279 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7280 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7282 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7283 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7286 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7287 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7288 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7289 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7290 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7291 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7292 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7293 buffer is too small.
7295 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7296 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7298 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7299 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7300 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7301 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7302 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7303 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7304 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7305 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7306 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7308 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7309 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7310 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7312 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7313 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7316 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7317 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7318 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7319 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7320 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7322 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7323 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7324 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7325 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7328 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7330 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7332 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7333 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7335 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7336 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7337 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7339 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7340 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7341 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7342 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7343 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7345 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7346 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7347 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7348 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7349 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7350 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7351 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7353 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7354 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7355 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7356 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7357 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7358 the test of how many are available.
7360 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7361 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7362 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7363 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7364 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7365 new message is started.
7367 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7368 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7370 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7371 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7373 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7374 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7375 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7378 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7379 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7380 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7381 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7382 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7383 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7384 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7386 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7387 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7388 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7389 interpreted as octal.
7391 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7394 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7395 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7396 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7397 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7398 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7399 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7401 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7402 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7403 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7404 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7406 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7407 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7408 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7409 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7411 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7412 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7415 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7416 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7418 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7420 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7421 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7422 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7423 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7425 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7426 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7427 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7428 supplied", which is not helpful.
7430 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7431 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7432 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7434 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7435 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7436 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7437 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7438 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7439 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7440 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7441 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7443 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7444 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7445 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7446 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7447 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7449 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7450 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7451 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7452 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7453 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7454 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7456 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7457 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7458 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7460 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7462 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7463 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7464 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7467 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7469 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7470 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7471 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7472 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7473 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7474 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7475 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7476 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7478 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7479 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7480 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7481 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7482 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7484 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7487 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7488 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7489 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7490 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7491 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7492 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7493 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7494 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7495 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7501 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7502 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7503 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7505 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7508 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7509 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7510 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7512 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7513 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7514 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7515 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7516 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7517 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7519 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7520 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7521 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7522 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7523 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7524 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7525 the Exim test suite.
7527 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7528 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7529 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7530 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7532 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7533 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7534 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7535 specify it in this variable.
7537 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7538 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7539 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7540 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7542 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7543 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7544 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7545 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7547 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7548 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7549 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7550 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7551 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7553 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7555 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7558 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7559 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7560 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7561 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7562 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7564 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7565 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7567 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7568 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7569 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7570 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7571 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7573 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7574 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7576 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7577 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7578 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7580 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7581 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7583 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7584 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7586 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7587 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7588 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7590 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7591 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7593 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7594 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7595 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7596 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7598 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7600 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7601 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7602 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7603 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7605 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7607 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7608 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7610 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7612 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7613 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7614 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7615 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7616 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7617 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7619 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7621 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7622 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7625 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7627 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7628 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7630 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7631 550 Sender verify failed
7633 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7634 the final line of the response.
7636 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7637 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7638 all other user lookups.
7640 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7643 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7644 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7645 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7646 result into an int without checking.
7648 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7649 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7650 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7652 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7653 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7654 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7655 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7657 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7660 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7661 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7663 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7664 to the empty sender.
7666 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7667 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7668 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7669 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7670 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7671 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7672 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7675 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7676 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7677 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7678 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7681 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7682 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7684 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7687 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7688 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7690 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7692 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7693 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7696 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7697 as soon as it is encountered.
7699 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7701 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7704 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7705 recognizes a tab character.
7707 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7708 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7709 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7710 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7712 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7714 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7717 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7719 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7721 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7722 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7725 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7726 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7727 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7728 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7729 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7731 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7732 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7734 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7735 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7736 list (.included file names were always shown).
7738 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7739 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7740 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7743 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7744 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7746 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7748 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7750 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7752 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7753 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7754 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7755 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7756 failures to open the logs.
7758 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7759 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7760 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7761 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7762 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7763 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7764 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7770 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7771 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7772 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7775 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7776 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7777 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7779 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7780 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7781 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7783 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7784 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7785 causing some misleading effects.
7787 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7788 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7789 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7791 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7792 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7793 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7794 queue-runner function directly.
7800 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7803 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7804 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7805 was always written to the default place.
7807 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7808 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7809 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7811 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7813 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7815 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7816 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7817 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7819 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7820 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7823 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7824 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7825 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7827 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7828 command line option is disabled.
7830 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7831 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7833 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7835 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7837 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7838 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7840 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7842 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7843 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7844 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7845 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7846 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7847 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7849 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7850 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7853 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7854 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7856 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7857 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7859 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7860 received was valid base64.
7862 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7863 name of the variable that was being set.
7865 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7867 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7868 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7869 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7870 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7871 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7872 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7874 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7876 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7877 nor realm was specified.
7879 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7880 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7881 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7882 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7884 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7885 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7886 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7888 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7889 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7890 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7892 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7893 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7894 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7895 some systems use these upper case variants.
7897 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7898 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7899 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7900 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7902 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7904 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7905 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7907 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7908 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7911 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7913 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7914 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7915 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7916 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7918 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7921 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7922 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7923 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7925 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7926 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7928 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7929 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7930 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7931 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7933 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7934 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7935 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7937 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7939 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7940 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7941 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7942 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7945 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7946 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7947 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7949 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7951 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7952 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7954 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7955 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7957 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7958 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7959 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7960 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7961 when emails are that large.
7968 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7969 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7971 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7972 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7973 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7975 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7976 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7977 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7979 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7980 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7981 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7982 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7983 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7985 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7986 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7987 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7988 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7989 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7992 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7993 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7994 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7995 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7996 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7997 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7998 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7999 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8000 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8001 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8002 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8003 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8004 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8005 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8007 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8008 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8011 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8012 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8013 error should be diagnosed.
8015 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8016 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8017 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8018 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8019 appeared instead of "NULL".
8021 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8022 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8023 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8024 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8025 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8026 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8029 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8030 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8031 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8037 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8038 or receiver verification errors.
8040 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8043 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8044 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8045 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8046 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8048 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8049 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8050 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8051 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8052 shouldn't happen again.
8054 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8055 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8056 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8058 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8059 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8061 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8063 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8064 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8066 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8067 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8070 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8071 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8072 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8074 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8075 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8076 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8077 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8079 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8080 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8081 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8082 to define what should happen).
8084 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8085 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8086 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8088 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8090 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8092 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8093 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8095 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8096 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8097 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8098 structure in all cases.
8100 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8101 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8102 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8103 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8105 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8106 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8109 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8110 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8112 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8113 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8115 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8116 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8117 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8119 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8120 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8121 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8123 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8124 the book and for uniformity.
8126 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8128 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8129 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8130 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8131 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8132 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8133 non-existent command as the problem.
8135 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8136 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8137 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8139 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8141 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8142 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8143 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8145 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8146 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8147 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8148 timestamps using strftime().
8150 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8151 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8153 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8154 transport-time rewrites.
8156 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8157 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8158 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8159 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8161 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8162 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8164 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8165 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8166 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8167 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8170 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8171 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8172 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8173 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8174 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8175 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8176 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8178 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8179 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8180 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8181 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8182 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8184 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8185 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8186 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8187 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8188 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8189 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8190 remaining text gets split now.
8192 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8193 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8194 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8195 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8197 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8198 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8199 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8200 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8203 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8204 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8205 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8206 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8207 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8208 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8209 passed through if needed.
8211 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8212 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8213 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8214 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8215 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8216 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8218 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8219 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8220 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8221 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8222 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8224 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8225 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8226 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8227 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8228 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8230 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8231 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8234 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8235 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8236 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8237 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8238 mayhem of various kinds.
8240 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8241 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8242 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8243 the right test for positive values.
8245 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8246 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8247 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8248 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8249 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8250 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8251 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8252 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8253 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8254 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8257 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8260 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8261 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8264 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8265 the existing equality matching.
8267 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8268 dealing with inode numbers.
8270 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8271 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8272 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8274 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8275 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8276 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8277 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8280 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8281 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8282 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8283 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8284 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8285 relay addresses has also been removed.
8287 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8289 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8290 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8291 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8293 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8294 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8295 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8296 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8297 processing applies to CR:
8299 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8300 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8302 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8303 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8304 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8305 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8307 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8308 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8309 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8311 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8312 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8313 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8314 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8315 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8316 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8319 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8322 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8323 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8324 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8325 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8328 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8330 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8332 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8334 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8335 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8336 not considered personal.
8338 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8340 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8342 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8344 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8345 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8346 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8347 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8348 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8349 header lines, and spool format errors.
8351 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8352 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8353 for more flexibility.
8355 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8356 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8357 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8359 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8362 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8363 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8364 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8365 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8366 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8367 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8368 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8369 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8370 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8372 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8373 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8374 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8375 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8376 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8377 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8378 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8380 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8381 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8382 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8384 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8385 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8386 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8387 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8388 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8389 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8390 instead of killing the process with assert().
8392 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8393 than Unicode encoding.
8395 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8396 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8397 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8398 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8400 77. Added process_log_path.
8402 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8403 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8405 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8406 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8408 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8409 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8410 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8412 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8413 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8414 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8415 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8416 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8419 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8420 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8423 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8424 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8425 they will be used during message reception.
8431 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.