1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
12 non-signal-safe functions being used.
14 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
15 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
16 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
18 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
19 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
20 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
21 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart.
23 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
24 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
25 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
26 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
27 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
28 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
29 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
31 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
34 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
35 Previously this would segfault.
37 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
40 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
42 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
44 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
45 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
46 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
48 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
49 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
50 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
51 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
53 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
54 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
55 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
57 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
58 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
59 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
60 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
62 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
63 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
64 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
66 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
67 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
68 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
70 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
71 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
74 JH/36 Harder the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
75 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
76 off past the nul-terimation.
78 AM/01 GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they return error
79 codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
85 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
86 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
87 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
88 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
89 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
90 be defined in redis_servers.
92 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
93 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
95 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
96 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
97 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
100 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
101 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
103 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
104 Previously only the last row was returned.
106 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
107 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
108 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
109 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
112 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
113 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
114 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
115 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
116 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
117 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
118 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
119 Main pool for expansions.
120 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
121 active in the testsuite.
122 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
124 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
125 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
126 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
127 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
130 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
131 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
134 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
135 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
136 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
138 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
139 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
140 ClamAV interface method is removed.
142 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
143 rows affected is given instead).
145 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
146 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
148 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
149 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
150 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
151 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
152 for all multi-message initiating connections.
154 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
155 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
156 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
158 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
159 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
160 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
161 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
164 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
165 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
166 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
169 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
171 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
172 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
174 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
175 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
176 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
178 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
179 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
180 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
183 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
184 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
186 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
187 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
188 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
190 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
191 for the build is renamed.
193 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
194 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
195 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
197 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
198 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
199 result replacing the original.
201 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
202 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
203 and the resources needed to be freed.
205 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
207 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
210 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
211 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
212 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
213 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
215 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
216 length value. Previously this would segfault.
218 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
219 newer versions of the scanner.
221 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
222 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
223 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
224 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
225 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
226 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
227 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
229 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
230 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
231 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
232 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
233 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
234 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
235 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
236 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
237 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
238 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
240 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
241 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
243 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
245 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
246 allows proper process termination in container environments.
248 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
249 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
251 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
252 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
253 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
255 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
256 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
257 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
258 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
260 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
261 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
264 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
265 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
267 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
268 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
269 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
270 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
271 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
273 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
274 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
277 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
278 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
280 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
283 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
284 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
285 "bare" representation.
287 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
288 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
289 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
290 corrupted the output.
296 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
297 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
298 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
299 pairs of long lines into single ones.
301 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
302 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
304 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
305 This permits better logging.
307 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
308 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
309 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
310 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
311 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
312 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
314 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
315 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
318 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
319 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
320 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
322 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
323 than 255 are no longer allowed.
325 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
326 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
327 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
328 client, there is no benefit for these.
329 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
330 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
331 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
334 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
335 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
337 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
338 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
339 erroneously found still-pending ones.
341 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
342 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
344 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
345 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
346 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
347 signature and again for transmission.
349 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
350 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
351 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
353 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
354 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
355 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
356 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
357 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
358 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
359 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
361 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
362 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
363 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
364 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
366 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
367 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
368 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
369 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
370 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
371 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
374 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
375 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
376 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
377 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
380 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
381 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
382 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
383 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
386 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
387 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
390 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
391 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
392 banner-time rejection.
394 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
397 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
398 is the name of a transport.
401 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
403 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
404 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
406 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
407 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
408 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
411 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
412 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
413 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
414 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
416 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
417 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
418 initial verify call returned a defer.
420 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
421 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
423 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
424 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
426 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
427 if present. Previously it was ignored.
429 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
430 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
432 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
433 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
436 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
437 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
439 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
440 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
441 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
443 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
444 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
445 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
446 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
448 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
449 and confused the parent.
451 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
452 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
454 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
457 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
458 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
459 out-of-order delivery.
461 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
462 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
463 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
466 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
467 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
470 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
471 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
472 one run was done. Bug 2189.
474 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
475 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
476 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
477 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
478 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
479 message is still "Temporary local problem".
481 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
482 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
483 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
485 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
486 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
487 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
489 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
490 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
491 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
492 though a different problem.
498 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
499 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
501 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
503 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
504 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
506 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
507 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
509 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
510 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
511 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
512 before acknowledging the chunk.
514 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
515 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
516 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
518 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
519 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
520 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
523 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
524 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
525 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
527 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
528 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
530 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
531 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
532 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
533 body hash calculated value.
535 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
536 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
537 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
539 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
541 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
542 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
544 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
545 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
546 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
548 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
549 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
550 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
551 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
552 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
553 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
555 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
556 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
557 past that check, despite the cost.
559 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
560 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
561 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
563 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
564 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
565 TLS library to consume.
567 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
569 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
571 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
572 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
573 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
574 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
575 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
576 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
577 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
579 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
581 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
583 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
584 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
585 should be warning-free.
587 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
589 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
590 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
592 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
593 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
594 general solution here.
596 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
597 already-broken messages in the queue.
599 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
601 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
607 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
608 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
610 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
611 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
612 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
614 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
615 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
616 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
617 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
618 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
619 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
620 if one fails this test.
621 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
622 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
624 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
625 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
627 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
628 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
630 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
631 in rewrites and routers.
633 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
634 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
636 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
637 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
639 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
641 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
644 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
645 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
646 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
647 connection after a verify cache hit.
648 Do not update it with the verify result either.
650 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
651 when routing results in more than one destination address.
653 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
654 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
655 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
656 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
657 when the cutthrough connection is made).
659 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
660 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
662 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
663 Previously they were not counted.
665 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
666 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
667 that needed the lookup.
669 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
670 distinguished as "(=".
672 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
673 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
675 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
677 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
678 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
680 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
681 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
683 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
684 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
687 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
688 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
689 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
690 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
692 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
694 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
695 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
696 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
698 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
699 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
700 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
703 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
704 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
705 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
708 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
709 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
710 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
712 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
713 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
716 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
718 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
719 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
721 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
722 are not in the system include path.
724 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
725 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
726 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
727 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
729 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
730 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
731 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
733 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
735 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
736 an incoming connection.
738 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
741 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
742 fallback to "prime256v1".
744 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
745 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
751 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
752 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
753 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
754 client dropping the TLS connection.
756 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
757 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
759 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
760 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
761 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
762 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
765 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
766 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
767 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
768 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
769 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
770 check on the next write.
772 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
773 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
774 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
775 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
776 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
778 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
779 mime_regex ACL conditions.
781 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
782 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
783 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
785 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
786 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
787 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
788 an authenticate fail is not an error.
790 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
791 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
793 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
794 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
796 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
797 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
798 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
801 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
803 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
805 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
807 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
808 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
810 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
811 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
813 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
815 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
816 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
818 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
820 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
821 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
823 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
825 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
826 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
827 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
828 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
829 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
830 they will retry in-clear.
831 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
832 at installation time.
834 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
835 with the $config_file variable.
837 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
838 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
839 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
840 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
841 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
843 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
844 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
845 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
846 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
847 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
849 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
851 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
852 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
853 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
854 list order is no longer honoured.
856 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
859 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
860 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
862 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
863 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
864 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
865 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
867 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
868 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
870 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
871 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
873 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
874 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
876 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
878 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
879 cached by the daemon.
881 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
882 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
884 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
885 keys are given for lookup.
887 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
888 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
889 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
890 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
892 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
893 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
894 server-side so match that on older versions.
896 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
897 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
898 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
900 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
901 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
903 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
904 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
905 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
906 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
907 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
908 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
909 initial truncated version.
911 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
913 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
915 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
916 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
918 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
920 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
922 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
923 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
926 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
927 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
930 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
931 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
933 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
934 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
937 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
938 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
939 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
941 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
942 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
943 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
944 extraction. Accept either.
950 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
953 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
955 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
958 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
959 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
960 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
961 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
963 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
964 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
965 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
967 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
968 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
969 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
972 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
975 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
976 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
977 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
978 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
979 have a dsn_lasthop option.
981 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
982 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
983 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
985 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
987 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
988 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
990 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
991 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
993 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
996 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
997 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
999 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1000 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1001 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1003 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1004 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1005 specify a port-range.
1007 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1008 timeout value per server.
1010 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1011 now have the list separator specified.
1013 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1016 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1019 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1021 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1022 rather than the verbs used.
1024 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1025 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1027 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1029 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1030 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1032 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1033 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1035 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1036 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1038 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1040 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1042 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1043 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1044 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1045 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1047 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1049 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1050 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1052 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1053 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1055 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1057 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1059 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1061 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1062 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1064 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1065 added for tls authenticator.
1067 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1073 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1074 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1075 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1076 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1077 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1078 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1079 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1081 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1082 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1083 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1084 function when detected.
1086 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1087 cause callback expansion.
1089 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1090 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1091 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1092 instead of bool when processing it.
1094 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1095 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1097 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1099 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1101 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1103 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1104 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1106 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1107 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1108 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1109 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1110 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1111 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1113 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1114 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1117 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1118 version 3.3.6 or later.
1120 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1121 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1122 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1123 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1124 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1125 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1128 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1129 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1131 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1132 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1133 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1136 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1137 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1138 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1140 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1141 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1143 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1144 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1147 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1149 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1150 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1152 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1153 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1156 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1158 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1161 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1162 output list separator was used.
1167 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1168 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1171 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1172 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1174 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1176 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1177 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1183 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1185 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1186 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1187 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1188 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1189 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1190 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1192 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1193 utilities have not been installed.
1195 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1196 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1198 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1199 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1201 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1202 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1203 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1204 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1206 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1208 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1209 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1211 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1214 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1216 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1217 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1218 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1220 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1221 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1222 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1223 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1224 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1225 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1227 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1229 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1230 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1232 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1235 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1237 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1239 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1240 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1242 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1243 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1245 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1247 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1249 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1250 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1252 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1253 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1254 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1256 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1257 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1258 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1261 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1263 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1264 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1267 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1268 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1271 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1272 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1274 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1275 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1277 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1279 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1280 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1281 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1283 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1284 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1286 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1287 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1290 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1291 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1292 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1294 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1296 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1297 Christian Aistleitner.
1299 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1301 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1302 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1304 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1305 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1307 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1308 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1310 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1311 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1313 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1314 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1316 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1317 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1318 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1320 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1322 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1323 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1326 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1328 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1329 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1336 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1338 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1339 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1341 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1344 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1345 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1348 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1350 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1351 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1352 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1353 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1354 using channel bindings instead).
1356 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1357 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1358 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1359 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1360 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1363 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1365 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1367 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1368 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1370 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1371 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1372 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1374 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1376 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1378 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1379 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1381 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1383 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1385 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1387 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1388 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1390 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1392 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1393 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1396 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1397 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1399 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1400 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1403 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1405 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1407 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1408 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1410 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1413 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1414 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1416 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1417 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1419 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1421 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1423 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1426 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1429 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1431 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1432 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1433 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1434 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1436 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1438 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1439 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1440 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1441 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1444 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1445 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1446 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1448 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1449 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1450 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1451 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1453 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1454 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1455 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1456 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1457 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1458 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1459 delivery, as in LMTP.
1461 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1462 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1464 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1466 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1470 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1471 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1472 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1473 username as equal to the username.
1475 This change corrects that bug.
1477 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1478 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1479 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1481 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1483 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1484 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1485 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1486 NULL dereference and crash.
1488 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1490 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1491 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1492 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1494 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1496 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1497 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1498 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1499 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1500 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1501 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1502 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1503 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1504 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1505 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1506 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1508 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1509 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1511 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1512 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1515 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1516 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1517 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1518 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1519 an empty string is now equivalent.
1521 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1522 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1523 not performing validation itself.
1525 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1526 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1528 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1531 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1533 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1534 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1535 other false fix of the same issue.
1536 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1539 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1540 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1542 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1543 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1544 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1546 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1547 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1548 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1550 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1552 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1554 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1555 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1557 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1560 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1561 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1562 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1563 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1564 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1566 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1567 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1569 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1570 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1573 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1574 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1575 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1576 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1578 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1580 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1581 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1582 from multiple comments on this bug.
1584 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1586 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1587 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1590 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1591 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1593 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1594 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1600 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1602 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1608 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1609 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1610 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1612 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1614 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1617 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1619 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1621 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1623 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1624 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1626 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1627 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1629 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1630 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1632 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1633 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1634 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1636 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1638 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1639 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1641 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1643 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1645 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1646 non-compliant senders.
1647 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1649 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1650 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1651 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1653 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1654 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1655 in spool file corruption.
1657 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1658 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1659 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1662 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1663 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1664 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1666 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1667 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1669 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1671 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1673 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1675 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1676 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1677 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1679 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1680 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1681 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1682 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1684 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1685 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1687 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1688 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1689 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1690 resolver implementation change.
1692 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1693 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1695 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1697 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1699 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1700 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1702 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1703 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1705 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1706 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1708 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1709 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1710 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1711 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1712 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1714 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1716 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1717 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1718 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1720 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1722 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1723 read-only, out of scope).
1724 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1726 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1727 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1728 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1729 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1731 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1733 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1734 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1735 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1736 real issues in debug logging.
1738 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1739 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1741 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1742 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1743 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1745 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1746 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1747 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1750 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1751 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1753 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1754 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1755 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1756 needs to override this, it can.
1758 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1759 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1760 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1762 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1763 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1764 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1765 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1767 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1773 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1774 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1776 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1778 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1781 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1782 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1784 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1785 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1786 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1788 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1789 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1790 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1791 not safe for signals.
1793 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1794 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1795 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1796 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1799 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1801 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1802 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1803 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1804 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1805 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1807 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1808 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1809 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1810 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1811 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1812 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1814 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1815 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1816 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1817 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1819 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1820 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1821 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1822 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1824 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1825 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1826 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1827 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1828 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1829 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1830 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1831 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1832 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1834 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1835 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1836 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1837 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1839 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1840 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1841 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1842 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1843 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1844 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1845 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1846 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1847 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1848 details in the main documentation.
1850 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1852 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1854 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1855 repository when doing development or release builds.
1857 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1858 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1860 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1861 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1864 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1866 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1867 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1869 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1870 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1872 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1873 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1875 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1876 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1878 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1879 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1881 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1883 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1886 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1887 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1888 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1890 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1892 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1894 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1895 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1901 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1903 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1904 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1906 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1908 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1910 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1913 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1914 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1916 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1917 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1919 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1920 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1922 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1925 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1926 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1928 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1929 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1930 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1931 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1933 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1934 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1940 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1943 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1944 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1945 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1947 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1948 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1950 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1951 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1952 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1954 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1955 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1957 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1958 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1960 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1961 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1963 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1964 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1966 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1967 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1969 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1972 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1973 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1975 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1976 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1978 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1979 SQL string expansion failure details.
1980 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1982 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1983 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1985 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1986 extern declarations in function scope.
1987 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1989 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1990 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1991 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1994 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1995 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1997 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1998 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2000 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2001 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2003 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2004 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2006 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2007 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2010 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2012 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2014 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2015 Patch by Simon Arlott
2017 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2018 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2024 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2025 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2027 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2028 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2030 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2032 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2033 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2034 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2036 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2037 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2038 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2040 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2041 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2042 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2043 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2045 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2046 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2047 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2048 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2050 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2051 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2052 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2055 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2058 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2059 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2060 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2061 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2062 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2068 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2069 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2070 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2072 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2073 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2075 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2077 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2079 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2081 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2083 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2085 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2086 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2087 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2088 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2090 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2091 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2092 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2093 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2094 more caution in buffer sizes.
2096 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2098 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2100 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2102 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2104 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2106 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2108 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2110 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2111 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2112 ignore trailing whitespace.
2114 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2116 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2119 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2120 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2122 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2123 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2124 Notification from John Horne.
2126 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2129 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2130 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2133 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2136 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2137 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2138 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2140 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2141 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2142 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2145 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2146 option (effectively making it always true).
2148 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2149 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2151 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2152 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2154 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2155 run-time user, instead of root.
2157 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2158 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2160 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2161 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2164 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2165 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2166 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2168 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2170 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2176 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2177 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2180 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2181 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2184 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2185 Patch from Alain Williams
2187 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2189 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2190 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2192 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2193 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2195 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2197 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2199 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2200 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2202 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2204 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2206 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2207 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2208 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2210 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2211 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2213 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2214 Patch by Simon Arlott
2216 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2217 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2223 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2225 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2227 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2229 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2231 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2237 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2238 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2240 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2241 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2244 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2245 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2246 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2248 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2249 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2251 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2252 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2253 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2254 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2256 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2257 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2258 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2260 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2262 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2264 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2265 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2267 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2269 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2270 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2271 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2272 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2274 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2275 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2277 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2279 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2281 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2282 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2284 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2285 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2287 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2288 that they are available at delivery time.
2290 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2292 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2293 incoming_port log selectors.
2295 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2296 setting expands to an empty string.
2298 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2299 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2301 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2302 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2304 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2305 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2307 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2308 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2310 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2311 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2313 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2314 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2316 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2318 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2319 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2321 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2322 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2324 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2326 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2327 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2329 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2331 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2333 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2336 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2337 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2339 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2340 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2342 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2343 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2345 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2346 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2348 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2349 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2351 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2352 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2354 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2355 plus update to original patch.
2357 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2359 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2360 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2362 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2364 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2366 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2368 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2370 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2371 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2373 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2374 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2376 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2377 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2379 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2380 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2382 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2384 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2386 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2388 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2394 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2395 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2396 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2398 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2399 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2400 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2401 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2402 build errors in sieve.c.
2404 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2405 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2406 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2408 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2410 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2412 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2414 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2420 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2422 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2423 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2424 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2425 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2426 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2427 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2428 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2429 for iplsearch lookups.
2431 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2432 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2433 previously such lookups could never work.
2435 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2436 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2437 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2439 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2442 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2443 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2444 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2445 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2446 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2447 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2449 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2450 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2452 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2453 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2454 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2455 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2456 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2457 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2459 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2462 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2464 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2465 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2468 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2469 by clients under certain conditions.
2471 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2472 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2474 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2476 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2477 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2479 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2481 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2483 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2485 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2486 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2488 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2490 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2491 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2493 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2495 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2497 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2498 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2499 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2500 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2502 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2503 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2504 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2506 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2507 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2509 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2511 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2513 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2515 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2516 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2517 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2523 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2524 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2527 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2528 issue a MAIL command.
2530 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2532 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2534 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2535 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2536 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2537 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2538 item. This has been fixed.
2540 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2541 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2543 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2544 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2546 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2547 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2548 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2550 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2552 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2553 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2554 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2555 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2556 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2558 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2559 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2560 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2562 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2563 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2564 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2565 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2567 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2569 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2571 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2572 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2573 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2574 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2575 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2577 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2579 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2580 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2581 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2584 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2586 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2588 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2590 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2592 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2594 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2595 no_callout_flush is set.
2597 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2598 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2599 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2602 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2604 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2605 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2606 other ACL rejections are.
2608 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2609 with slight modification.
2611 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2612 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2614 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2615 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2618 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2619 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2621 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2623 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2624 expansion side effects.
2626 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2627 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2628 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2631 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2632 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2633 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2635 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2636 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2637 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2638 were accidentally chopped off.
2640 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2641 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2642 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2643 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2644 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2645 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2646 pipelining has not been advertised.
2648 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2650 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2651 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2652 This has been fixed.
2654 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2655 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2656 reported on Solaris.
2658 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2659 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2660 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2661 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2662 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2663 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2664 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2666 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2669 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2671 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2673 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2674 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2675 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2676 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2677 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2678 criteria to be more general.
2680 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2681 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2682 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2683 host_all_ignored option.
2685 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2686 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2687 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2688 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2689 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2690 is what is supposed to happen).
2692 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2693 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2694 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2695 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2696 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2699 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2700 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2701 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2702 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2703 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2704 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2707 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2709 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2710 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2712 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2713 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2715 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2717 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2719 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2720 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2721 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2722 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2723 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2724 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2725 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2726 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2727 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2728 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2729 least in a lot of common cases.
2731 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2732 advertised in response to EHLO.
2738 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2739 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2741 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2742 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2744 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2745 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2746 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2748 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2749 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2750 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2751 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2752 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2758 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2759 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2762 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2763 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2764 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2766 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2767 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2768 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2769 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2770 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2771 rather than extend the field.
2777 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2778 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2779 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2780 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2783 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2784 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2785 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2787 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2788 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2789 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2791 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2792 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2793 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2796 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2797 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2798 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2799 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2800 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2801 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2802 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2803 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2804 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2805 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2806 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2808 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2811 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2812 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2813 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2814 ignores EPIPE as well.
2816 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2817 (quoted-printable decoding).
2819 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2820 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2822 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2824 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2826 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2828 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2829 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2831 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2834 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2835 miscellaneous code fixes
2837 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2840 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2841 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2842 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2843 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2844 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2845 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2846 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2847 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2849 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2850 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2851 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2852 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2854 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2855 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2856 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2857 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2858 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2859 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2860 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2861 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2862 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2864 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2867 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2868 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2869 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2870 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2871 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2872 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2873 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2874 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2876 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2877 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2880 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2881 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2882 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2883 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2884 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2885 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2886 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2887 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2888 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2889 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2890 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2891 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2892 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2894 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2895 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2896 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2897 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2898 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2899 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2900 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2902 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2903 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2904 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2905 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2906 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2907 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2908 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2909 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2910 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2911 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2913 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2914 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2915 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2916 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2917 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2919 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2920 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2921 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2922 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2923 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2924 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2925 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2927 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2928 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2929 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2930 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2931 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2932 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2935 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2936 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2937 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2940 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2941 if any retry times were supplied.
2943 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2944 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2945 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2947 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2949 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2951 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2952 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2953 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2954 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2955 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2956 before) are ignored.
2958 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2959 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2961 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2962 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2963 committing the later change.]
2965 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2966 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2967 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2968 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2969 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2970 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2971 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2972 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2973 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2975 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2976 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2977 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2978 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2979 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2980 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2981 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2982 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2983 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2985 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2986 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2987 hammering the server.
2989 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2990 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2992 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2994 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2995 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2996 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2998 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2999 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3000 one case where this was not true.
3002 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3003 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3004 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3005 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3008 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3009 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3010 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3011 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3012 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3013 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3014 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3015 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3016 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3019 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3020 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3021 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3022 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3024 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3025 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3027 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3028 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3029 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3031 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3033 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3035 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3037 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3038 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3039 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3040 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3042 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3043 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3045 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3046 be meaningful with "accept".
3048 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3049 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3051 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3052 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3053 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3055 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3056 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3057 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3058 there is data to show.
3059 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3061 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3062 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3063 as well as the number of messages.
3065 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3066 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3067 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3069 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3070 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3071 have a flag are now skipped.
3073 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3074 Added the -emptyok flag.
3076 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3077 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3079 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3080 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3081 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3083 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3086 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3087 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3089 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3091 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3092 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3094 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3096 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3097 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3098 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3099 contravention of the specifications.
3101 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3102 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3103 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3105 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3106 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3107 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3109 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3111 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3112 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3113 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3114 some point in the past.
3116 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3117 transport during callout processing was broken.
3119 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3120 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3122 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3123 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3125 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3126 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3128 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3134 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3135 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3137 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3138 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3139 there is data to show.
3140 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3142 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3143 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3145 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3146 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3148 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3149 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3151 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3152 submissions from trusted users.
3154 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3155 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3157 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3158 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3159 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3160 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3161 there is now a framework to start from.
3163 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3164 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3165 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3167 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3169 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3171 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3173 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3174 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3175 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3177 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3180 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3181 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3182 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3184 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3185 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3186 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3189 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3190 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3191 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3192 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3193 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3195 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3196 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3198 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3200 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3201 operations in malware.c.
3203 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3206 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3207 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3208 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3211 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3212 statements to "add_header".
3214 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3215 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3217 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3218 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3221 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3225 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3226 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3227 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3230 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3231 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3233 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3234 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3236 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3237 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3238 any possible encoding problems.
3240 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3241 but not after initializing Perl.
3243 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3244 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3245 apparently, which is not desirable.
3247 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3250 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3253 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3255 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3256 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3257 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3258 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3260 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3261 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3262 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3264 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3265 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3266 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3269 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3270 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3271 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3272 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3273 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3279 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3280 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3282 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3285 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3286 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3287 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3288 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3289 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3290 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3291 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3292 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3295 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3297 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3298 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3299 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3301 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3302 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3303 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3306 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3307 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3309 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3310 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3311 option (which defaults to 0600).
3313 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3315 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3316 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3317 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3318 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3319 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3320 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3321 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3323 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3329 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3330 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3331 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3332 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3333 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3334 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3337 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3338 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3340 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3342 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3343 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3344 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3345 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3346 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3349 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3350 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3352 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3353 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3354 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3355 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3356 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3358 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3359 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3360 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3361 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3363 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3364 be the same on different OS.
3366 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3369 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3370 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3372 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3375 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3376 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3377 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3378 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3379 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3380 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3383 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3384 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3385 when Exim was called.
3387 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3388 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3390 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3391 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3392 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3393 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3395 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3396 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3397 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3398 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3401 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3402 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3403 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3405 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3406 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3407 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3409 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3412 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3413 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3414 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3415 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3416 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3417 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3418 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3419 values from the SRV records were lost.
3421 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3422 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3423 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3425 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3426 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3427 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3429 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3430 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3431 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3432 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3433 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3434 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3435 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3436 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3437 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3438 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3440 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3441 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3442 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3444 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3445 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3447 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3448 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3449 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3450 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3453 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3454 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3455 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3457 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3458 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3459 PH/23 above applies.
3461 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3462 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3463 (for which there is an explicit test).
3465 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3467 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3468 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3469 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3470 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3471 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3473 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3474 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3475 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3476 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3478 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3479 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3480 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3482 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3484 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3486 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3487 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3488 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3490 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3491 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3492 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3493 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3494 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3496 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3497 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3498 the message gets confusing).
3500 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3501 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3502 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3503 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3505 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3506 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3507 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3508 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3511 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3512 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3513 the different processes.
3515 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3517 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3519 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3520 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3522 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3523 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3525 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3526 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3527 messages matching specified criteria.
3529 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3531 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3532 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3534 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3535 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3536 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3537 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3538 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3539 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3540 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3541 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3542 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3543 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3545 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3546 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3547 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3549 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3551 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3552 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3553 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3554 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3555 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3556 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3557 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3560 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3561 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3563 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3565 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3567 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3569 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3570 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3571 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3572 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3573 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3574 size of the count of files.
3576 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3578 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3581 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3582 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3583 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3584 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3586 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3587 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3588 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3590 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3591 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3592 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3593 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3594 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3596 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3597 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3599 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3600 will now be deprecated.
3602 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3604 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3605 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3606 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3608 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3609 with very large, slow to parse queues
3611 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3613 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3615 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3616 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3617 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3620 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3621 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3622 Sieve code now uses this.
3624 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3625 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3627 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3628 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3630 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3632 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3633 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3634 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3635 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3636 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3638 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3639 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3640 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3641 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3643 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3645 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3647 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3648 is preferred over IPv4.
3650 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3651 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3652 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3653 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3654 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3655 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3656 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3658 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3659 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3660 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3662 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3664 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3665 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3666 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3667 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3668 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3669 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3670 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3671 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3672 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3673 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3674 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3676 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3677 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3678 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3684 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3686 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3687 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3689 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3690 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3691 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3693 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3695 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3698 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3701 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3702 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3703 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3706 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3707 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3709 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3710 inside the third argument.
3712 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3713 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3716 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3717 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3719 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3720 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3722 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3724 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3725 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3728 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3730 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3731 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3732 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3733 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3734 identical. For example:
3736 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3738 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3739 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3740 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3742 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3743 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3744 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3745 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3747 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3748 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3749 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3752 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3754 o fixes some comments
3755 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3756 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3757 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3758 and documents the missing references header update
3762 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3763 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3766 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3767 Electronic Mail") by including:
3769 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3771 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3772 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3773 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3774 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3775 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3777 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3779 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3781 The auto-replied keyword:
3783 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3784 message by an automatic process,
3786 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3788 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3789 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3791 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3792 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3795 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3796 to the default Received: header definition.
3798 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3800 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3801 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3802 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3804 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3805 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3806 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3808 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3809 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3810 and treats the condition as false.
3812 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3814 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3815 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3816 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3817 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3818 not changing the active code.
3820 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3821 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3823 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3824 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3826 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3829 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3830 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3831 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3832 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3833 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3834 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3835 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3836 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3837 the text comparison.
3839 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3840 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3841 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3842 The same fix has been applied.
3848 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3849 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3852 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3853 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3855 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3857 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3858 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3859 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3860 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3861 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3863 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3864 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3865 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3866 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3869 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3877 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3878 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3880 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3882 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3884 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3885 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3886 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3888 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3889 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3890 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3892 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3893 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3896 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3897 ${stat: expansion item.
3899 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3900 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3902 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3903 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3906 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3908 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3911 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3912 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3914 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3916 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3917 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3918 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3919 the end of the subprocess.
3921 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3922 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3923 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3924 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3925 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3927 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3929 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3931 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3932 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3934 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3936 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3938 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3939 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3942 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3944 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3945 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3946 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3948 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3949 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3951 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3952 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3954 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3955 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3957 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3958 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3960 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3961 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3962 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3963 contributed by a Radius user.
3965 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3966 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3968 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3969 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3971 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3974 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3975 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3978 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3979 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3980 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3981 header lines when this was not necessary.
3983 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3985 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3986 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3987 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3990 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3993 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3994 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3995 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3996 return code was incorrect.
3998 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4000 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4002 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4004 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4006 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4007 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4008 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4009 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4010 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4013 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4015 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4016 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4017 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4018 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4019 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4020 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4021 which is clearly wrong.
4023 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4025 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4026 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4027 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4030 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4031 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4033 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4035 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4036 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4038 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4039 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4041 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4042 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4044 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4045 recipients, not senders.
4047 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4048 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4050 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4052 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4054 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4055 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4056 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4057 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4059 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4061 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4062 clock is set back in time.
4064 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4065 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4067 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4068 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4070 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4071 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4074 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4075 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4078 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4081 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4083 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4084 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4085 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4087 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4088 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4089 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4090 helo verification defer as a failure.
4092 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4093 actual error message.
4099 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4101 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4102 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4103 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4104 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4106 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4108 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4109 can still be requested.
4111 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4112 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4113 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4114 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4116 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4117 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4118 circumstances, but probably never did.
4120 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4121 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4122 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4125 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4127 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4128 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4130 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4132 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4134 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4135 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4136 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4137 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4138 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4139 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4141 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4142 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4143 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4144 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4145 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4146 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4148 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4149 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4151 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4152 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4154 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4155 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4157 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4159 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4161 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4163 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4165 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4167 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4169 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4171 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4172 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4173 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4175 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4176 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4177 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4178 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4180 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4181 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4182 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4184 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4185 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4186 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4187 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4189 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4190 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4193 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4194 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4195 should work with maildirs and everything.
4197 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4198 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4200 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4203 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4204 function for BDB 4.3.
4206 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4208 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4209 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4212 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4213 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4214 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4215 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4216 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4217 formatting function string_vformat().
4219 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4220 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4221 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4222 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4223 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4224 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4225 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4226 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4228 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4229 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4232 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4233 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4235 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4236 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4237 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4238 test. It is now used for both.
4240 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4241 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4242 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4243 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4244 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4245 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4247 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4248 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4249 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4252 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4253 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4254 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4256 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4257 experimental DomainKeys support:
4259 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4260 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4261 the control was given.
4263 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4265 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4267 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4269 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4270 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4271 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4274 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4275 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4276 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4277 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4278 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4279 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4282 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4283 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4284 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4285 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4286 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4287 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4289 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4290 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4291 do -d+all out of habit.
4293 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4294 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4297 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4298 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4299 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4300 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4301 record types that Exim uses.
4303 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4304 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4305 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4306 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4307 non-existent file that was broken.
4309 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4310 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4312 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4313 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4314 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4316 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4318 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4319 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4320 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4321 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4322 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4325 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4326 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4327 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4328 at a slight CPU cost.
4330 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4331 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4333 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4336 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4338 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4339 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4345 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4346 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4348 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4350 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4352 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4353 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4355 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4356 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4357 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4358 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4359 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4360 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4363 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4364 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4365 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4366 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4369 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4370 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4371 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4372 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4373 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4374 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4375 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4378 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4379 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4381 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4382 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4383 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4384 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4385 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4386 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4388 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4389 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4390 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4391 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4393 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4396 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4397 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4399 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4400 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4401 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4402 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4405 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4407 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4408 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4410 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4411 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4412 to what was transported.)
4414 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4416 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4417 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4418 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4419 spamd_address settings.
4421 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4422 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4423 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4424 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4425 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4427 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4429 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4430 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4431 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4432 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4433 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4435 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4436 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4438 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4439 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4440 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4441 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4442 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4443 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4444 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4447 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4448 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4449 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4450 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4451 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4452 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4453 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4456 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4458 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4459 driver and ACL definitions.
4461 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4462 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4464 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4465 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4466 understands it better than I do:
4468 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4469 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4471 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4472 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4473 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4474 => three warnings about OTP not working
4475 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4477 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4478 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4479 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4480 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4482 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4483 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4485 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4486 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4487 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4489 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4490 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4493 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4494 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4497 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4498 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4499 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4501 warn !verify = sender
4502 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4504 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4505 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4507 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4509 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4510 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4512 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4513 nomenclature these days.)
4515 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4516 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4518 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4519 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4520 . First host does not offer TLS;
4521 . First host accepts first address;
4522 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4523 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4524 . Second host accepts second address.
4525 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4526 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4529 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4530 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4531 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4532 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4533 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4535 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4536 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4538 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4539 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4541 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4542 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4543 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4545 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4546 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4549 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4551 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4552 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4553 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4554 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4555 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4556 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4557 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4559 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4560 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4561 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4562 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4563 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4565 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4566 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4569 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4570 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4571 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4572 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4573 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4574 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4576 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4578 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4579 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4580 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4581 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4582 printable escape sequences.
4584 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4585 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4588 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4589 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4592 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4593 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4594 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4595 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4596 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4598 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4599 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4600 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4602 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4604 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4605 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4608 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4609 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4610 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4611 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4612 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4613 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4614 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4615 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4616 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4619 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4620 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4621 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4622 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4626 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4627 ----------------------------------------
4629 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4630 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4631 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4632 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4633 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4634 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4637 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4638 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4639 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4640 historical information.
4646 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4648 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4649 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4651 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4652 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4655 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4656 filter fails to execute.
4658 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4659 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4660 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4661 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4662 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4664 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4666 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4667 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4668 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4669 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4671 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4672 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4673 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4674 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4675 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4677 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4679 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4681 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4682 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4683 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4684 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4686 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4687 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4688 sender verification.
4690 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4691 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4693 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4695 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4698 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4699 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4701 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4702 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4704 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4705 information about exactly what failed.
4707 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4709 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4710 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4711 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4713 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4714 It is now set to "smtps".
4716 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4717 ignore_target_hosts.
4719 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4720 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4721 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4722 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4725 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4726 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4727 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4729 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4730 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4731 wake it up if nothing else does.
4733 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4734 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4735 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4738 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4739 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4741 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4743 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4744 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4745 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4746 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4747 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4748 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4749 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4750 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4752 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4753 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4754 than one IP address.
4756 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4757 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4758 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4759 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4761 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4762 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4763 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4764 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4765 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4768 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4769 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4770 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4771 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4773 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4774 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4777 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4778 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4779 $sender_host_address.
4781 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4782 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4783 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4784 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4785 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4788 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4790 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4791 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4793 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4794 just the host names, not the priorities.
4796 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4797 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4798 controlled by a keyword.
4800 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4801 multiple records are returned.
4803 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4804 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4807 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4809 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4810 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4812 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4813 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4814 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4816 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4818 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4820 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4822 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4823 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4824 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4825 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4826 because the tests only now provoked it.
4828 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4829 (this can affect the format of dates).
4831 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4832 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4833 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4834 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4836 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4838 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4839 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4840 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4841 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4843 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4844 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4845 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4847 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4850 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4851 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4852 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4853 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4854 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4855 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4858 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4859 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4860 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4863 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4864 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4865 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4867 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4868 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4869 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4870 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4871 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4872 so I produce this patch..."
4874 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4875 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4878 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4879 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4880 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4881 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4884 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4886 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4887 long debug lines gets shown.
4889 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4890 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4892 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4894 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4895 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4896 of $primary_hostname.
4898 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4899 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4900 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4901 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4902 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4903 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4904 by change 4.50/55 above.
4906 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4907 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4908 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4909 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4910 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4911 running as the user.
4914 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4915 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4916 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4919 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4920 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4922 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4923 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4924 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4925 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4926 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4928 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4929 This has been fixed.
4931 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4932 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4933 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4934 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4937 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4939 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4940 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4941 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4942 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4944 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4945 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4947 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4948 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4949 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4951 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4952 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4953 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4956 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4957 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4958 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4960 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4961 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4962 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4963 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4965 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4966 during host lookups.
4968 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4969 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4971 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4973 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4974 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4975 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4976 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4977 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4980 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4981 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4983 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4984 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4985 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4987 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4989 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4990 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4991 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4992 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4993 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4994 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4997 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4998 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4999 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5000 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5001 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5003 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5006 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5008 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5009 "vacation" handling.
5011 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5012 OS variants using glibc.
5014 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5017 ----------------------------------------------------
5018 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5019 ----------------------------------------------------
5025 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5026 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5029 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5030 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5033 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5034 filter fails to execute.
5036 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5037 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5038 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5039 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5040 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5042 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5043 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5044 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5045 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5047 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5048 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5049 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5050 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5051 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5053 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5055 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5056 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5057 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5058 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5060 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5061 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5062 sender verification.
5064 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5065 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5067 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5068 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5070 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5071 ignore_target_hosts.
5073 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5074 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5075 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5076 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5079 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5080 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5081 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5083 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5084 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5085 wake it up if nothing else does.
5087 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5088 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5089 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5092 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5093 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5095 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5097 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5098 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5101 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5102 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5105 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5106 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5107 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5108 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5109 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5112 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5113 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5116 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5117 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5118 $sender_host_address.
5120 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5122 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5123 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5124 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5126 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5129 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5130 (this can affect the format of dates).
5132 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5133 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5134 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5135 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5137 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5138 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5139 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5141 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5142 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5143 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5144 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5146 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5147 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5148 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5150 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5153 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5154 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5155 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5156 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5157 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5158 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5161 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5162 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5163 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5164 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5167 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5168 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5169 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5170 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5171 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5172 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5173 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5175 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5176 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5177 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5178 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5179 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5180 running as the user.
5183 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5184 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5185 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5188 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5189 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5190 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5191 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5192 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5194 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5195 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5196 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5197 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5200 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5201 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5202 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5203 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5204 because the tests only now provoked it.
5210 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5211 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5212 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5213 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5214 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5215 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5216 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5218 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5219 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5222 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5224 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5226 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5227 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5230 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5231 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5232 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5233 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5234 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5236 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5237 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5239 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5241 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5243 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5246 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5247 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5249 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5250 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5251 affecting debugging statements).
5253 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5255 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5256 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5257 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5258 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5259 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5260 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5261 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5262 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5263 after the received time, and all would be well.
5265 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5266 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5267 condition in an expansion string.
5269 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5271 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5272 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5273 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5274 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5275 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5276 job under whatever limits there are.
5278 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5280 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5283 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5284 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5285 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5286 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5289 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5290 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5291 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5292 binary data in such strings.
5294 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5296 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5297 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5298 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5299 failure, which is pointless.
5301 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5303 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5305 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5306 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5307 Sender: header lines.
5309 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5310 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5311 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5313 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5314 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5315 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5316 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5317 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5320 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5321 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5322 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5323 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5324 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5326 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5327 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5328 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5331 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5332 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5334 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5335 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5337 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5339 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5341 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5343 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5346 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5348 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5350 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5351 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5352 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5353 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5355 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5356 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5362 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5363 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5364 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5366 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5367 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5368 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5369 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5370 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5371 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5373 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5374 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5375 verification failure".
5377 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5378 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5379 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5380 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5382 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5383 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5384 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5385 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5386 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5387 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5388 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5389 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5390 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5391 treated as a timeout.
5393 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5394 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5395 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5396 not set for Exim filters).
5398 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5399 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5400 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5402 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5404 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5405 try to make them clearer.
5407 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5408 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5410 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5412 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5414 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5415 only the Cygwin environment.
5417 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5418 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5419 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5420 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5421 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5423 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5424 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5425 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5426 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5427 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5428 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5429 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5431 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5432 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5434 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5436 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5437 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5438 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5440 To: susanne@some.where
5442 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5443 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5444 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5445 of addresses in From: header lines).
5447 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5448 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5449 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5451 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5452 treated as non-personal.
5454 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5455 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5457 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5459 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5461 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5462 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5463 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5465 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5466 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5468 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5469 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5470 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5471 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5472 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5473 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5475 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5476 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5477 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5478 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5479 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5480 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5481 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5482 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5484 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5486 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5487 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5489 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5490 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5491 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5493 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5494 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5496 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5497 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5498 rather than long int.
5500 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5502 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5508 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5509 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5510 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5511 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5512 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5513 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5519 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5520 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5522 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5523 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5524 socklen_t is defined.
5526 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5529 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5532 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5533 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5534 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5535 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5536 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5538 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5539 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5540 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5541 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5543 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5544 of flapping under certain conditions.
5546 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5547 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5548 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5550 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5552 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5554 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5555 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5556 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5557 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5559 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5560 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5561 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5562 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5563 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5564 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5565 preserved with the message after it was received.
5567 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5568 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5569 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5570 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5571 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5572 test suite worked just fine.
5574 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5575 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5576 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5578 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5579 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5582 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5583 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5584 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5585 does not fully solve it.
5587 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5588 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5589 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5590 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5591 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5593 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5594 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5595 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5597 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5598 string, for example:
5600 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5602 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5603 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5604 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5605 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5606 the routers could not see them.
5608 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5609 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5611 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5612 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5615 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5616 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5617 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5618 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5619 that needed quoting.
5621 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5622 was not being matched caselessly.
5624 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5627 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5628 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5629 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5630 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5631 when use_sender is false.
5633 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5635 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5637 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5639 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5640 the configuration file.
5642 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5643 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5645 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5647 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5648 bytes in the message body.
5650 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5651 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5654 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5656 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5658 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5659 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5660 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5661 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5668 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5669 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5671 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5672 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5673 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5674 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5675 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5677 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5678 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5680 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5681 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5682 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5684 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5685 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5686 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5688 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5691 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5692 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5693 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5694 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5695 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5696 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5697 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5703 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5704 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5705 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5706 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5707 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5708 default (and expected) setting.
5710 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5711 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5712 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5713 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5715 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5716 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5718 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5721 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5722 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5723 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5724 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5725 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5726 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5728 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5729 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5730 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5732 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5733 part (NOT match_host).
5735 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5737 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5738 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5739 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5740 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5741 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5742 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5743 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5744 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5745 the same named file.
5747 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5748 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5751 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5752 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5753 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5754 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5757 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5758 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5759 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5761 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5763 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5765 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5767 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5768 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5770 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5771 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5772 before starting the TLS session.
5774 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5776 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5777 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5779 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5780 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5781 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5782 colon in the middle).
5788 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5789 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5790 multiple configurations are in use.
5792 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5793 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5794 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5795 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5796 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5797 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5799 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5800 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5802 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5803 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5804 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5806 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5807 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5810 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5811 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5813 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5815 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5816 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5818 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5826 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5827 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5828 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5829 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5830 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5832 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5835 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5836 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5837 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5838 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5839 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5840 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5842 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5843 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5844 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5845 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5846 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5847 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5848 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5851 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5852 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5853 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5854 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5855 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5857 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5859 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5860 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5861 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5863 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5865 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5866 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5867 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5870 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5871 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5873 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5874 Three changes have been made:
5876 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5877 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5878 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5879 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5880 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5882 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5885 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5886 the modified behaviour.
5892 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5895 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5896 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5898 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5899 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5900 try to track down a specific problem.
5902 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5903 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5904 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5906 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5909 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5910 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5911 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5912 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5913 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5914 some earlier ones do not.
5916 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5918 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5919 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5920 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5921 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5922 address literals are enabled, of course).
5924 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5926 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5927 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5928 by a command such as
5932 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5934 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5936 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5937 remained set. It is now erased.
5939 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5940 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5942 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5943 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5944 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5945 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5946 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5947 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5948 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5949 appropriate error code.
5951 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5952 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5953 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5954 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5955 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5956 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5958 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5959 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5960 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5962 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5963 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5964 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5965 terminate the header.
5967 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5968 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5969 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5971 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5972 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5973 (4.30/29). In particular:
5975 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5978 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5979 to write a maildirsize file.
5981 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5982 the transport, the new value overrides.
5984 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5987 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5988 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5989 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5992 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5993 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5994 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5997 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5998 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5999 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6001 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6002 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6005 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6006 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6007 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6009 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6011 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6013 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6015 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6016 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6019 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6020 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6021 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6022 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6023 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6024 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6025 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6028 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6029 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6030 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6031 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6032 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6035 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6036 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6037 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6038 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6039 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6040 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6041 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6042 cached value only when the same options are set.
6044 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6046 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6047 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6048 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6049 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6050 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6052 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6053 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6054 it is clearly obsolete.
6056 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6059 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6060 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6061 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6064 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6065 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6066 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6067 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6068 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6070 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6071 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6072 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6073 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6075 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6077 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6079 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6080 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6083 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6084 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6085 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6086 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6087 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6088 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6091 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6092 with the -f command-line option.
6094 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6095 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6096 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6097 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6098 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6099 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6101 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6102 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6105 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6106 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6107 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6108 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6109 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6110 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6111 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6112 buffer is too small.
6114 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6115 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6117 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6118 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6119 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6120 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6121 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6122 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6123 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6124 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6125 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6127 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6128 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6129 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6131 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6132 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6135 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6136 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6137 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6138 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6139 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6141 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6142 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6143 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6144 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6147 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6149 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6151 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6152 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6154 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6155 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6156 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6158 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6159 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6160 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6161 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6162 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6164 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6165 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6166 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6167 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6168 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6169 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6170 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6172 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6173 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6174 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6175 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6176 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6177 the test of how many are available.
6179 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6180 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6181 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6182 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6183 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6184 new message is started.
6186 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6187 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6189 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6190 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6192 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6193 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6194 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6197 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6198 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6199 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6200 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6201 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6202 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6203 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6205 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6206 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6207 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6208 interpreted as octal.
6210 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6213 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6214 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6215 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6216 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6217 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6218 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6220 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6221 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6222 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6223 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6225 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6226 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6227 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6228 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6230 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6231 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6234 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6235 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6237 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6239 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6240 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6241 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6242 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6244 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6245 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6246 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6247 supplied", which is not helpful.
6249 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6250 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6251 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6253 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6254 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6255 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6256 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6257 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6258 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6259 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6260 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6262 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6263 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6264 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6265 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6266 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6268 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6269 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6270 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6271 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6272 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6273 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6275 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6276 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6277 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6279 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6281 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6282 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6283 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6286 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6288 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6289 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6290 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6291 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6292 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6293 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6294 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6295 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6297 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6298 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6299 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6300 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6301 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6303 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6306 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6307 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6308 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6309 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6310 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6311 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6312 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6313 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6314 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6320 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6321 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6322 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6324 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6327 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6328 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6329 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6331 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6332 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6333 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6334 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6335 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6336 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6338 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6339 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6340 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6341 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6342 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6343 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6344 the Exim test suite.
6346 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6347 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6348 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6349 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6351 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6352 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6353 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6354 specify it in this variable.
6356 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6357 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6358 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6359 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6361 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6362 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6363 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6364 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6366 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6367 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6368 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6369 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6370 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6372 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6374 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6377 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6378 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6379 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6380 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6381 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6383 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6384 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6386 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6387 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6388 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6389 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6390 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6392 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6393 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6395 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6396 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6397 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6399 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6400 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6402 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6403 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6405 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6406 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6407 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6409 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6410 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6412 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6413 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6414 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6415 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6417 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6419 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6420 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6421 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6422 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6424 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6426 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6427 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6429 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6431 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6432 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6433 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6434 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6435 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6436 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6438 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6440 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6441 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6444 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6446 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6447 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6449 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6450 550 Sender verify failed
6452 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6453 the final line of the response.
6455 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6456 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6457 all other user lookups.
6459 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6462 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6463 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6464 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6465 result into an int without checking.
6467 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6468 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6469 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6471 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6472 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6473 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6474 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6476 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6479 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6480 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6482 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6483 to the empty sender.
6485 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6486 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6487 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6488 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6489 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6490 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6491 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6494 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6495 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6496 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6497 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6500 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6501 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6503 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6506 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6507 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6509 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6511 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6512 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6515 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6516 as soon as it is encountered.
6518 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6520 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6523 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6524 recognizes a tab character.
6526 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6527 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6528 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6529 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6531 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6533 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6536 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6538 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6540 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6541 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6544 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6545 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6546 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6547 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6548 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6550 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6551 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6553 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6554 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6555 list (.included file names were always shown).
6557 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6558 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6559 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6562 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6563 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6565 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6567 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6569 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6571 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6572 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6573 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6574 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6575 failures to open the logs.
6577 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6578 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6579 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6580 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6581 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6582 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6583 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6589 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6590 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6591 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6594 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6595 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6596 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6598 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6599 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6600 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6602 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6603 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6604 causing some misleading effects.
6606 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6607 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6608 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6610 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6611 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6612 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6613 queue-runner function directly.
6619 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6622 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6623 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6624 was always written to the default place.
6626 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6627 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6628 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6630 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6632 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6634 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6635 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6636 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6638 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6639 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6642 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6643 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6644 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6646 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6647 command line option is disabled.
6649 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6650 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6652 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6654 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6656 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6657 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6659 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6661 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6662 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6663 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6664 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6665 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6666 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6668 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6669 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6672 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6673 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6675 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6676 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6678 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6679 received was valid base64.
6681 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6682 name of the variable that was being set.
6684 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6686 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6687 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6688 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6689 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6690 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6691 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6693 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6695 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6696 nor realm was specified.
6698 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6699 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6700 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6701 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6703 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6704 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6705 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6707 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6708 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6709 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6711 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6712 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6713 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6714 some systems use these upper case variants.
6716 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6717 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6718 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6719 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6721 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6723 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6724 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6726 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6727 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6730 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6732 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6733 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6734 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6735 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6737 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6740 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6741 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6742 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6744 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6745 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6747 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6748 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6749 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6750 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6752 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6753 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6754 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6756 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6758 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6759 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6760 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6761 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6764 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6765 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6766 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6768 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6770 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6771 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6773 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6774 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6776 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6777 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6778 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6779 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6780 when emails are that large.
6787 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6788 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6790 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6791 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6792 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6794 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6795 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6796 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6798 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6799 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6800 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6801 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6802 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6804 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6805 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6806 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6807 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6808 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6811 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6812 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6813 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6814 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6815 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6816 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6817 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6818 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6819 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6820 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6821 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6822 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6823 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6824 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6826 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6827 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6830 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6831 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6832 error should be diagnosed.
6834 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6835 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6836 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6837 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6838 appeared instead of "NULL".
6840 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6841 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6842 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6843 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6844 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6845 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6848 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6849 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6850 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6856 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6857 or receiver verification errors.
6859 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6862 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6863 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6864 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6865 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6867 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6868 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6869 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6870 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6871 shouldn't happen again.
6873 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6874 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6875 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6877 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6878 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6880 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6882 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6883 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6885 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6886 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6889 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6890 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6891 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6893 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6894 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6895 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6896 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6898 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6899 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6900 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6901 to define what should happen).
6903 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6904 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6905 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6907 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6909 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6911 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6912 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6914 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6915 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6916 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6917 structure in all cases.
6919 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6920 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6921 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6922 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6924 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6925 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6928 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6929 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6931 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6932 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6934 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6935 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6936 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6938 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6939 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6940 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6942 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6943 the book and for uniformity.
6945 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6947 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6948 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6949 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6950 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6951 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6952 non-existent command as the problem.
6954 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6955 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6956 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6958 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6960 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6961 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6962 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6964 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6965 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6966 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6967 timestamps using strftime().
6969 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6970 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6972 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6973 transport-time rewrites.
6975 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6976 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6977 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6978 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6980 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6981 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6983 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6984 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6985 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6986 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6989 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6990 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6991 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6992 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6993 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6994 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6995 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6997 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6998 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6999 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7000 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7001 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7003 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7004 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7005 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7006 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7007 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7008 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7009 remaining text gets split now.
7011 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7012 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7013 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7014 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7016 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7017 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7018 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7019 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7022 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7023 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7024 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7025 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7026 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7027 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7028 passed through if needed.
7030 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7031 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7032 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7033 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7034 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7035 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7037 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7038 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7039 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7040 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7041 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7043 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7044 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7045 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7046 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7047 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7049 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7050 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7053 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7054 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7055 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7056 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7057 mayhem of various kinds.
7059 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7060 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7061 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7062 the right test for positive values.
7064 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7065 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7066 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7067 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7068 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7069 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7070 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7071 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7072 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7073 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7076 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7079 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7080 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7083 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7084 the existing equality matching.
7086 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7087 dealing with inode numbers.
7089 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7090 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7091 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7093 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7094 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7095 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7096 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7099 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7100 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7101 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7102 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7103 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7104 relay addresses has also been removed.
7106 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7108 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7109 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7110 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7112 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7113 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7114 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7115 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7116 processing applies to CR:
7118 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7119 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7121 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7122 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7123 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7124 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7126 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7127 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7128 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7130 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7131 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7132 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7133 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7134 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7135 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7138 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7141 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7142 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7143 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7144 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7147 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7149 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7151 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7153 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7154 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7155 not considered personal.
7157 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7159 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7161 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7163 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7164 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7165 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7166 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7167 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7168 header lines, and spool format errors.
7170 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7171 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7172 for more flexibility.
7174 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7175 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7176 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7178 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7181 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7182 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7183 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7184 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7185 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7186 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7187 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7188 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7189 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7191 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7192 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7193 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7194 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7195 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7196 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7197 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7199 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7200 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7201 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7203 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7204 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7205 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7206 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7207 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7208 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7209 instead of killing the process with assert().
7211 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7212 than Unicode encoding.
7214 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7215 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7216 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7217 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7219 77. Added process_log_path.
7221 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7222 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7224 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7225 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7227 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7228 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7229 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7231 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7232 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7233 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7234 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7235 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7238 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7239 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7242 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7243 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7244 they will be used during message reception.
7250 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.