1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
292 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
293 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
294 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
296 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
298 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
299 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
302 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
303 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
304 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
306 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
308 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
310 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
311 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
312 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
314 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
315 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
316 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
318 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
319 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
321 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
322 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
325 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
326 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
327 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
328 should both provide the file and set the option.
329 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
331 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
332 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
334 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
335 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
336 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
337 Authentication-Results: header.
339 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
340 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
341 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
342 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
344 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
345 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
346 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
347 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
348 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
349 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
350 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
352 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
353 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
354 copies while it is still usable.
356 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
357 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
358 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
360 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
361 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
363 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
364 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
365 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
366 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
368 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
369 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
370 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
373 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
374 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
375 - the pipe transport command
376 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
377 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
379 - paths used by single-key lookups
380 Previously this was permitted.
382 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
383 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
384 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
385 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
387 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
388 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
389 support larger malloc requests.
391 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
392 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
393 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
394 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
396 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
397 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
398 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
399 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
402 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
403 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
404 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
405 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
406 data being length-specified.
408 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
409 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
410 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
411 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
413 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
414 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
415 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
416 not being properly tracked.
418 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
419 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
420 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
421 minute could be seen.
423 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
424 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
425 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
427 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
428 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
430 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
431 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
434 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
436 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
437 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
439 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
440 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
441 filesystem as sufficient validation.
443 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
444 argument is supplied.
446 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
447 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
448 access under Exim's current working directory.
450 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
451 Previously no event was raised.
453 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
454 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
455 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
458 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
459 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
460 the size of the signature hash.
462 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
463 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
465 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
466 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
467 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
468 dropped between messages.
470 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
471 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
472 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
473 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
475 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
476 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
477 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
478 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
479 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
480 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
481 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
482 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
483 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
485 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
486 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
487 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
489 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
490 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
497 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
498 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
500 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
501 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
504 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
507 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
509 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
511 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
512 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
514 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
515 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
516 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
517 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
518 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
519 suitably configured).
521 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
522 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
524 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
525 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
528 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
529 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
531 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
532 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
533 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
534 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
537 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
538 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
539 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
541 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
544 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
545 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
547 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
548 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
549 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
550 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
553 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
554 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
555 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
556 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
559 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
560 shared (NFS) environment.
562 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
563 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
566 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
567 on some platforms for bit 31.
569 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
570 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
571 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
572 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
573 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
574 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
575 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
576 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
578 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
580 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
581 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
583 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
584 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
587 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
588 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
591 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
592 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
593 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
596 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
597 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
598 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
600 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
601 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
602 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
603 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
604 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
606 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
609 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
610 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
611 be requested on all coneections.
613 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
614 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
616 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
618 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
619 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
620 one for these; the option was ignored.
622 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
623 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
624 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
625 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
627 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
628 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
629 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
632 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
633 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
634 error ignored was made.
636 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
638 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
639 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
640 values, to catch one form of exploit.
642 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
643 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
644 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
646 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
647 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
650 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
651 them in our smtp response.
653 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
654 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
655 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
656 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
657 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
659 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
660 link count into consideration.
662 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
663 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
665 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
666 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
667 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
670 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
672 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
674 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
676 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
677 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
678 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
679 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
681 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
683 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
684 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
687 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
688 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
689 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
691 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
692 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
693 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
695 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
696 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
697 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
698 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
699 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
700 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
701 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
702 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
704 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
705 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
706 resulted in an indefinite loop.
708 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
709 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
710 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
716 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
717 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
719 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
720 non-signal-safe functions being used.
722 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
723 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
724 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
726 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
727 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
728 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
730 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
731 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
732 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
733 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
734 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
737 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
738 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
740 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
741 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
742 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
743 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
744 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
745 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
746 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
748 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
749 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
751 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
754 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
755 Previously this would segfault.
757 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
760 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
761 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
762 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
763 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
764 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
765 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
767 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
769 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
770 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
771 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
772 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
774 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
776 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
777 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
778 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
779 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
781 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
783 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
785 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
786 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
787 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
789 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
790 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
791 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
793 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
795 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
796 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
797 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
798 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
800 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
801 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
802 promised '?' replacement.
804 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
806 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
807 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
808 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
809 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
810 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
812 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
813 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
814 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
816 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
817 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
818 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
820 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
821 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
822 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
824 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
825 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
826 hope that is portable enough.
828 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
829 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
830 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
831 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
833 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
834 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
835 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
837 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
838 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
839 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
840 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
842 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
843 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
845 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
846 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
847 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
848 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
850 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
851 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
852 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
854 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
855 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
856 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
857 the previous G, M, k.
859 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
860 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
863 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
864 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
865 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
866 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
868 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
869 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
871 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
872 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
873 off past the nul-terimation.
875 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
876 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
877 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
878 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
879 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
881 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
883 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
884 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
885 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
888 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
889 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
891 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
892 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
893 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
895 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
896 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
897 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
899 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
900 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
906 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
907 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
908 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
909 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
910 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
911 be defined in redis_servers.
913 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
914 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
916 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
917 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
918 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
919 extant use locations.
921 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
922 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
924 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
925 Previously only the last row was returned.
927 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
928 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
929 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
930 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
933 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
934 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
935 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
936 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
937 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
938 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
939 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
940 Main pool for expansions.
941 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
942 active in the testsuite.
943 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
945 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
946 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
947 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
948 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
951 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
952 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
955 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
956 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
957 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
959 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
960 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
961 ClamAV interface method is removed.
963 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
964 rows affected is given instead).
966 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
967 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
969 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
970 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
971 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
972 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
973 for all multi-message initiating connections.
975 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
976 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
977 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
979 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
980 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
981 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
982 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
985 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
986 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
987 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
990 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
992 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
993 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
995 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
996 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
997 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
999 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1000 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1001 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1004 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1005 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1007 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1008 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1009 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1011 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1012 for the build is renamed.
1014 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1015 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1016 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1018 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1019 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1020 result replacing the original.
1022 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1023 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1024 and the resources needed to be freed.
1026 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1028 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1031 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1032 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1033 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1034 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1036 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1037 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1039 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1040 newer versions of the scanner.
1042 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1043 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1044 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1045 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1046 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1047 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1048 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1050 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1051 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1052 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1053 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1054 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1055 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1056 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1057 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1058 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1059 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1061 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1062 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1064 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1066 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1067 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1069 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1070 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1072 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1073 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1074 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1076 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1077 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1078 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1079 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1081 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1082 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1085 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1086 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1088 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1089 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1090 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1091 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1092 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1094 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1095 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1098 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1099 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1101 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1104 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1105 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1106 "bare" representation.
1108 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1109 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1110 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1111 corrupted the output.
1117 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1118 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1119 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1120 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1122 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1123 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1125 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1126 This permits better logging.
1128 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1129 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1130 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1131 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1132 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1133 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1135 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1136 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1139 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1140 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1141 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1143 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1144 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1146 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1147 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1148 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1149 client, there is no benefit for these.
1150 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1151 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1152 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1155 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1156 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1158 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1159 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1160 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1162 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1163 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1165 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1166 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1167 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1168 signature and again for transmission.
1170 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1171 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1172 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1174 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1175 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1176 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1177 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1178 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1179 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1180 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1182 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1183 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1184 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1185 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1187 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1188 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1189 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1190 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1191 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1192 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1195 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1196 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1197 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1198 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1201 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1202 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1203 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1204 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1207 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1208 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1211 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1212 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1213 banner-time rejection.
1215 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1218 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1219 is the name of a transport.
1222 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1224 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1225 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1227 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1228 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1229 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1232 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1233 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1234 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1235 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1237 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1238 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1239 initial verify call returned a defer.
1241 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1242 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1244 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1245 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1247 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1248 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1250 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1251 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1253 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1254 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1257 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1258 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1260 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1261 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1262 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1264 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1265 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1266 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1267 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1269 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1270 and confused the parent.
1272 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1273 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1275 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1278 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1279 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1280 out-of-order delivery.
1282 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1283 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1284 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1287 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1288 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1291 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1292 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1293 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1295 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1296 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1297 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1298 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1299 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1300 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1302 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1303 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1304 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1306 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1307 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1308 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1310 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1311 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1312 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1313 though a different problem.
1319 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1320 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1322 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1324 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1325 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1327 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1328 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1330 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1331 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1332 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1333 before acknowledging the chunk.
1335 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1336 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1337 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1339 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1340 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1341 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1344 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1345 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1346 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1348 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1349 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1351 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1352 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1353 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1354 body hash calculated value.
1356 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1357 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1358 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1360 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1362 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1363 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1365 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1366 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1367 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1369 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1370 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1371 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1372 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1373 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1374 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1376 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1377 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1378 past that check, despite the cost.
1380 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1381 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1382 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1384 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1385 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1386 TLS library to consume.
1388 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1390 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1392 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1393 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1394 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1395 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1396 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1397 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1398 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1400 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1402 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1404 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1405 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1406 should be warning-free.
1408 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1410 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1411 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1413 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1414 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1415 general solution here.
1417 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1418 already-broken messages in the queue.
1420 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1422 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1428 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1429 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1431 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1432 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1433 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1435 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1436 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1437 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1438 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1439 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1440 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1441 if one fails this test.
1442 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1443 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1445 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1446 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1448 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1449 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1451 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1452 in rewrites and routers.
1454 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1455 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1457 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1458 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1460 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1462 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1465 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1466 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1467 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1468 connection after a verify cache hit.
1469 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1471 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1472 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1474 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1475 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1476 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1477 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1478 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1480 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1481 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1483 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1484 Previously they were not counted.
1486 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1487 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1488 that needed the lookup.
1490 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1491 distinguished as "(=".
1493 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1494 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1496 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1498 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1499 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1501 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1502 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1504 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1505 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1508 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1509 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1510 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1511 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1513 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1515 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1516 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1517 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1519 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1520 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1521 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1524 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1525 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1526 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1529 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1530 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1531 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1533 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1534 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1537 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1539 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1540 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1542 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1543 are not in the system include path.
1545 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1546 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1547 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1548 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1550 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1551 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1552 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1554 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1556 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1557 an incoming connection.
1559 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1562 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1563 fallback to "prime256v1".
1565 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1566 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1572 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1573 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1574 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1575 client dropping the TLS connection.
1577 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1578 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1580 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1581 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1582 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1583 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1586 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1587 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1588 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1589 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1590 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1591 check on the next write.
1593 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1594 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1595 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1596 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1597 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1599 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1600 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1602 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1603 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1604 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1606 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1607 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1608 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1609 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1611 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1612 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1614 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1615 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1617 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1618 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1619 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1622 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1624 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1626 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1628 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1629 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1631 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1632 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1634 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1636 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1637 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1639 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1641 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1642 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1644 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1646 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1647 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1648 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1649 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1650 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1651 they will retry in-clear.
1652 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1653 at installation time.
1655 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1656 with the $config_file variable.
1658 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1659 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1660 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1661 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1662 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1664 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1665 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1666 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1667 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1668 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1670 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1672 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1673 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1674 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1675 list order is no longer honoured.
1677 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1678 for DKIM processing.
1680 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1681 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1683 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1684 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1685 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1686 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1688 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1689 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1691 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1692 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1694 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1695 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1697 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1699 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1700 cached by the daemon.
1702 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1703 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1705 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1706 keys are given for lookup.
1708 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1709 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1710 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1711 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1713 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1714 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1715 server-side so match that on older versions.
1717 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1718 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1719 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1721 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1722 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1724 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1725 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1726 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1727 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1728 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1729 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1730 initial truncated version.
1732 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1734 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1736 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1737 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1739 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1741 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1743 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1744 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1747 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1748 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1751 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1752 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1754 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1755 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1758 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1759 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1760 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1762 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1763 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1764 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1765 extraction. Accept either.
1771 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1774 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1776 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1779 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1780 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1781 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1782 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1784 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1785 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1786 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1788 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1789 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1790 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1793 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1796 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1797 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1798 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1799 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1800 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1802 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1803 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1804 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1806 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1808 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1809 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1811 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1812 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1814 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1817 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1818 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1820 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1821 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1822 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1824 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1825 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1826 specify a port-range.
1828 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1829 timeout value per server.
1831 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1832 now have the list separator specified.
1834 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1837 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1840 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1842 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1843 rather than the verbs used.
1845 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1846 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1848 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1850 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1851 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1853 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1854 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1856 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1857 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1859 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1861 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1863 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1864 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1865 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1866 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1868 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1870 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1871 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1873 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1874 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1876 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1878 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1880 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1882 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1883 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1885 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1886 added for tls authenticator.
1888 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1894 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1895 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1896 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1897 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1898 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1899 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1900 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1902 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1903 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1904 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1905 function when detected.
1907 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1908 cause callback expansion.
1910 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1911 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1912 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1913 instead of bool when processing it.
1915 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1916 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1918 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1920 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1922 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1924 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1925 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1927 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1928 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1929 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1930 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1931 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1932 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1934 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1935 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1938 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1939 version 3.3.6 or later.
1941 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1942 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1943 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1944 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1945 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1946 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1949 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1950 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1952 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1953 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1954 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1957 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1958 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1959 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1961 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1962 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1964 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1965 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1968 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1970 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1971 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1973 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1974 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1977 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1979 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1982 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1983 output list separator was used.
1988 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1989 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1992 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1993 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1995 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1997 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1998 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2004 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2006 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2007 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2008 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2009 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2010 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2011 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2013 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2014 utilities have not been installed.
2016 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2017 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2019 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2020 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2022 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2023 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2024 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2025 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2027 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2029 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2030 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2032 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2035 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2037 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2038 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2039 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2041 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2042 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2043 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2044 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2045 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2046 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2048 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2050 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2051 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2053 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2056 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2058 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2060 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2061 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2063 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2064 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2066 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2068 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2070 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2071 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2073 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2074 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2075 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2077 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2078 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2079 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2082 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2084 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2085 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2088 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2089 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2092 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2093 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2095 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2096 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2098 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2100 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2101 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2102 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2104 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2105 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2107 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2108 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2111 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2112 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2113 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2115 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2117 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2118 Christian Aistleitner.
2120 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2122 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2123 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2125 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2126 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2128 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2129 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2131 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2132 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2134 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2135 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2137 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2138 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2139 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2141 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2143 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2144 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2147 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2149 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2150 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2157 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2159 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2160 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2162 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2165 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2166 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2169 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2171 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2172 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2173 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2174 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2175 using channel bindings instead).
2177 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2178 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2179 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2180 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2181 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2184 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2186 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2188 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2189 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2191 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2192 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2193 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2195 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2197 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2199 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2200 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2202 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2204 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2206 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2208 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2209 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2211 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2213 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2214 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2217 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2218 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2220 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2221 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2224 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2226 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2228 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2229 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2231 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2234 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2235 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2237 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2238 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2240 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2242 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2244 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2247 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2250 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2252 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2253 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2254 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2255 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2257 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2259 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2260 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2261 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2262 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2265 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2266 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2267 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2269 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2270 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2271 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2272 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2274 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2275 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2276 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2277 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2278 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2279 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2280 delivery, as in LMTP.
2282 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2283 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2285 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2287 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2291 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2292 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2293 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2294 username as equal to the username.
2296 This change corrects that bug.
2298 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2299 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2300 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2302 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2304 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2305 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2306 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2307 NULL dereference and crash.
2309 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2311 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2312 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2313 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2315 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2317 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2318 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2319 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2320 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2321 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2322 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2323 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2324 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2325 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2326 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2327 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2329 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2330 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2332 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2333 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2336 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2337 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2338 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2339 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2340 an empty string is now equivalent.
2342 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2343 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2344 not performing validation itself.
2346 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2347 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2349 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2352 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2354 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2355 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2356 other false fix of the same issue.
2357 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2360 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2361 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2363 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2364 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2365 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2367 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2368 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2369 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2371 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2373 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2375 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2376 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2378 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2381 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2382 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2383 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2384 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2385 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2387 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2388 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2390 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2391 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2394 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2395 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2396 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2397 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2399 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2401 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2402 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2403 from multiple comments on this bug.
2405 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2407 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2408 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2411 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2412 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2414 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2415 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2421 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2423 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2429 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2430 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2431 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2433 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2435 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2438 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2440 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2442 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2444 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2445 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2447 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2448 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2450 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2451 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2453 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2454 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2455 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2457 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2459 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2460 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2462 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2464 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2466 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2467 non-compliant senders.
2468 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2470 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2471 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2472 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2474 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2475 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2476 in spool file corruption.
2478 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2479 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2480 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2483 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2484 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2485 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2487 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2488 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2490 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2492 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2494 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2496 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2497 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2498 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2500 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2501 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2502 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2503 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2505 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2506 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2508 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2509 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2510 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2511 resolver implementation change.
2513 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2514 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2516 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2518 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2520 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2521 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2523 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2524 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2526 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2527 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2529 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2530 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2531 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2532 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2533 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2535 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2537 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2538 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2539 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2541 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2543 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2544 read-only, out of scope).
2545 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2547 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2548 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2549 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2550 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2552 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2554 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2555 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2556 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2557 real issues in debug logging.
2559 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2560 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2562 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2563 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2564 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2566 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2567 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2568 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2571 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2572 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2574 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2575 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2576 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2577 needs to override this, it can.
2579 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2580 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2581 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2583 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2584 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2585 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2586 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2588 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2594 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2595 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2597 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2599 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2602 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2603 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2605 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2606 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2607 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2609 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2610 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2611 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2612 not safe for signals.
2614 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2615 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2616 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2617 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2620 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2622 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2623 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2624 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2625 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2626 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2628 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2629 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2630 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2631 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2632 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2633 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2635 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2636 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2637 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2638 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2640 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2641 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2642 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2643 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2645 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2646 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2647 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2648 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2649 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2650 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2651 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2652 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2653 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2655 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2656 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2657 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2658 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2660 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2661 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2662 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2663 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2664 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2665 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2666 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2667 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2668 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2669 details in the main documentation.
2671 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2673 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2675 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2676 repository when doing development or release builds.
2678 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2679 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2681 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2682 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2685 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2687 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2688 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2690 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2691 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2693 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2694 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2696 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2697 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2699 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2700 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2702 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2704 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2707 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2708 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2709 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2711 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2713 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2715 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2716 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2722 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2724 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2725 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2727 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2729 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2731 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2734 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2735 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2737 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2738 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2740 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2741 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2743 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2746 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2747 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2749 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2750 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2751 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2752 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2754 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2755 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2761 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2764 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2765 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2766 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2768 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2769 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2771 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2772 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2773 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2775 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2776 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2778 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2779 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2781 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2782 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2784 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2785 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2787 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2788 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2790 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2793 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2794 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2796 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2797 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2799 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2800 SQL string expansion failure details.
2801 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2803 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2804 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2806 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2807 extern declarations in function scope.
2808 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2810 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2811 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2812 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2815 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2816 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2818 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2819 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2821 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2822 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2824 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2825 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2827 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2828 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2831 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2833 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2835 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2836 Patch by Simon Arlott
2838 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2839 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2845 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2846 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2848 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2849 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2851 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2853 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2854 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2855 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2857 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2858 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2859 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2861 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2862 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2863 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2864 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2866 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2867 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2868 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2869 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2871 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2872 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2873 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2876 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2879 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2880 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2881 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2882 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2883 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2889 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2890 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2891 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2893 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2894 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2896 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2898 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2900 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2902 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2904 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2906 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2907 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2908 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2909 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2911 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2912 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2913 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2914 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2915 more caution in buffer sizes.
2917 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2919 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2921 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2923 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2925 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2927 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2929 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2931 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2932 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2933 ignore trailing whitespace.
2935 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2937 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2940 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2941 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2943 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2944 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2945 Notification from John Horne.
2947 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2950 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2951 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2954 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2957 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2958 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2959 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2961 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2962 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2963 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2966 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2967 option (effectively making it always true).
2969 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2970 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2972 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2973 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2975 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2976 run-time user, instead of root.
2978 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2979 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2981 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2982 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2985 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2986 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2987 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2989 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2991 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2997 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2998 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3001 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3002 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3005 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3006 Patch from Alain Williams
3008 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3010 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3011 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3013 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3014 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3016 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3018 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3020 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3021 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3023 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3025 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3027 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3028 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3029 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3031 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3032 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3034 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3035 Patch by Simon Arlott
3037 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3038 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3044 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3046 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3048 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3050 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3052 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3058 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3059 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3061 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3062 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3065 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3066 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3067 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3069 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3070 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3072 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3073 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3074 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3075 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3077 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3078 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3079 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3081 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3083 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3085 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3086 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3088 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3090 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3091 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3092 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3093 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3095 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3096 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3098 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3100 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3102 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3103 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3105 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3106 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3108 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3109 that they are available at delivery time.
3111 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3113 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3114 incoming_port log selectors.
3116 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3117 setting expands to an empty string.
3119 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3120 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3122 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3123 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3125 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3126 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3128 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3129 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3131 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3132 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3134 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3135 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3137 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3139 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3140 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3142 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3143 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3145 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3147 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3148 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3150 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3152 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3154 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3157 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3158 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3160 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3161 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3163 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3164 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3166 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3167 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3169 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3170 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3172 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3173 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3175 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3176 plus update to original patch.
3178 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3180 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3181 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3183 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3185 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3187 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3189 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3191 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3192 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3194 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3195 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3197 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3198 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3200 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3201 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3203 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3205 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3207 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3209 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3215 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3216 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3217 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3219 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3220 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3221 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3222 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3223 build errors in sieve.c.
3225 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3226 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3227 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3229 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3231 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3233 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3235 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3241 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3243 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3244 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3245 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3246 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3247 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3248 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3249 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3250 for iplsearch lookups.
3252 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3253 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3254 previously such lookups could never work.
3256 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3257 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3258 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3260 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3263 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3264 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3265 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3266 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3267 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3268 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3270 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3271 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3273 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3274 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3275 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3276 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3277 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3278 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3280 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3283 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3285 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3286 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3289 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3290 by clients under certain conditions.
3292 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3293 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3295 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3297 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3298 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3300 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3302 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3304 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3306 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3307 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3309 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3311 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3312 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3314 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3316 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3318 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3319 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3320 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3321 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3323 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3324 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3325 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3327 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3328 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3330 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3332 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3334 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3336 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3337 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3338 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3344 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3345 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3348 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3349 issue a MAIL command.
3351 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3353 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3355 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3356 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3357 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3358 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3359 item. This has been fixed.
3361 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3362 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3364 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3365 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3367 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3368 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3369 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3371 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3373 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3374 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3375 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3376 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3377 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3379 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3380 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3381 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3383 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3384 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3385 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3386 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3388 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3390 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3392 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3393 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3394 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3395 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3396 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3398 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3400 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3401 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3402 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3405 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3407 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3409 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3411 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3413 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3415 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3416 no_callout_flush is set.
3418 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3419 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3420 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3423 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3425 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3426 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3427 other ACL rejections are.
3429 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3430 with slight modification.
3432 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3433 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3435 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3436 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3439 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3440 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3442 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3444 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3445 expansion side effects.
3447 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3448 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3449 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3452 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3453 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3454 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3456 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3457 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3458 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3459 were accidentally chopped off.
3461 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3462 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3463 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3464 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3465 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3466 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3467 pipelining has not been advertised.
3469 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3471 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3472 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3473 This has been fixed.
3475 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3476 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3477 reported on Solaris.
3479 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3480 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3481 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3482 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3483 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3484 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3485 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3487 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3490 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3492 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3494 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3495 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3496 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3497 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3498 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3499 criteria to be more general.
3501 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3502 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3503 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3504 host_all_ignored option.
3506 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3507 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3508 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3509 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3510 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3511 is what is supposed to happen).
3513 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3514 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3515 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3516 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3517 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3520 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3521 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3522 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3523 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3524 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3525 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3528 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3530 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3531 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3533 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3534 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3536 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3538 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3540 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3541 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3542 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3543 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3544 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3545 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3546 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3547 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3548 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3549 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3550 least in a lot of common cases.
3552 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3553 advertised in response to EHLO.
3559 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3560 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3562 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3563 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3565 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3566 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3567 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3569 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3570 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3571 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3572 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3573 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3579 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3580 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3583 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3584 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3585 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3587 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3588 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3589 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3590 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3591 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3592 rather than extend the field.
3598 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3599 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3600 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3601 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3604 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3605 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3606 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3608 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3609 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3610 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3612 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3613 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3614 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3617 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3618 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3619 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3620 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3621 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3622 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3623 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3624 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3625 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3626 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3627 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3629 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3632 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3633 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3634 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3635 ignores EPIPE as well.
3637 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3638 (quoted-printable decoding).
3640 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3641 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3643 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3645 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3647 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3649 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3650 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3652 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3655 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3656 miscellaneous code fixes
3658 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3661 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3662 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3663 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3664 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3665 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3666 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3667 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3668 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3670 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3671 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3672 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3673 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3675 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3676 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3677 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3678 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3679 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3680 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3681 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3682 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3683 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3685 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3688 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3689 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3690 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3691 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3692 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3693 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3694 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3695 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3697 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3698 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3701 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3702 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3703 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3704 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3705 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3706 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3707 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3708 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3709 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3710 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3711 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3712 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3713 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3715 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3716 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3717 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3718 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3719 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3720 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3721 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3723 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3724 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3725 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3726 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3727 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3728 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3729 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3730 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3731 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3732 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3734 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3735 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3736 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3737 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3738 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3740 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3741 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3742 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3743 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3744 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3745 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3746 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3748 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3749 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3750 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3751 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3752 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3753 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3756 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3757 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3758 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3761 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3762 if any retry times were supplied.
3764 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3765 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3766 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3768 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3770 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3772 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3773 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3774 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3775 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3776 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3777 before) are ignored.
3779 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3780 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3782 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3783 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3784 committing the later change.]
3786 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3787 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3788 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3789 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3790 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3791 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3792 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3793 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3794 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3796 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3797 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3798 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3799 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3800 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3801 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3802 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3803 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3804 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3806 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3807 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3808 hammering the server.
3810 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3811 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3813 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3815 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3816 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3817 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3819 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3820 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3821 one case where this was not true.
3823 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3824 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3825 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3826 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3829 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3830 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3831 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3832 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3833 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3834 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3835 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3836 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3837 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3840 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3841 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3842 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3843 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3845 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3846 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3848 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3849 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3850 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3852 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3854 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3856 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3858 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3859 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3860 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3861 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3863 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3864 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3866 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3867 be meaningful with "accept".
3869 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3870 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3872 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3873 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3874 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3876 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3877 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3878 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3879 there is data to show.
3880 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3882 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3883 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3884 as well as the number of messages.
3886 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3887 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3888 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3890 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3891 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3892 have a flag are now skipped.
3894 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3895 Added the -emptyok flag.
3897 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3898 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3900 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3901 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3902 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3904 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3907 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3908 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3910 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3912 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3913 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3915 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3917 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3918 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3919 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3920 contravention of the specifications.
3922 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3923 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3924 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3926 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3927 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3928 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3930 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3932 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3933 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3934 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3935 some point in the past.
3937 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3938 transport during callout processing was broken.
3940 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3941 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3943 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3944 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3946 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3947 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3949 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3955 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3956 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3958 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3959 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3960 there is data to show.
3961 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3963 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3964 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3966 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3967 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3969 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3970 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3972 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3973 submissions from trusted users.
3975 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3976 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3978 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3979 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3980 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3981 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3982 there is now a framework to start from.
3984 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3985 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3986 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3988 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3990 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3992 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3994 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3995 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3996 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3998 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4001 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4002 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4003 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4005 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4006 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4007 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4010 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4011 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4012 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4013 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4014 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4016 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4017 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4019 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4021 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4022 operations in malware.c.
4024 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4027 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4028 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4029 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4032 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4033 statements to "add_header".
4035 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4036 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4038 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4039 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4042 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4046 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4047 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4048 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4051 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4052 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4054 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4055 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4057 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4058 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4059 any possible encoding problems.
4061 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4062 but not after initializing Perl.
4064 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4065 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4066 apparently, which is not desirable.
4068 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4071 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4074 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4076 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4077 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4078 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4079 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4081 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4082 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4083 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4085 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4086 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4087 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4090 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4091 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4092 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4093 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4094 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4100 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4101 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4103 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4106 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4107 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4108 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4109 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4110 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4111 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4112 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4113 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4116 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4118 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4119 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4120 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4122 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4123 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4124 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4127 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4128 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4130 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4131 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4132 option (which defaults to 0600).
4134 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4136 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4137 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4138 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4139 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4140 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4141 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4142 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4144 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4150 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4151 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4152 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4153 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4154 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4155 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4158 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4159 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4161 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4163 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4164 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4165 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4166 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4167 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4170 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4171 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4173 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4174 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4175 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4176 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4177 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4179 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4180 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4181 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4182 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4184 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4185 be the same on different OS.
4187 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4190 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4191 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4193 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4196 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4197 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4198 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4199 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4200 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4201 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4204 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4205 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4206 when Exim was called.
4208 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4209 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4211 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4212 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4213 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4214 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4216 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4217 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4218 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4219 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4222 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4223 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4224 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4226 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4227 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4228 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4230 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4233 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4234 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4235 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4236 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4237 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4238 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4239 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4240 values from the SRV records were lost.
4242 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4243 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4244 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4246 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4247 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4248 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4250 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4251 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4252 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4253 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4254 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4255 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4256 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4257 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4258 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4259 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4261 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4262 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4263 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4265 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4266 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4268 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4269 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4270 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4271 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4274 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4275 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4276 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4278 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4279 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4280 PH/23 above applies.
4282 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4283 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4284 (for which there is an explicit test).
4286 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4288 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4289 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4290 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4291 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4292 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4294 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4295 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4296 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4297 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4299 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4300 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4301 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4303 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4305 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4307 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4308 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4309 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4311 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4312 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4313 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4314 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4315 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4317 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4318 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4319 the message gets confusing).
4321 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4322 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4323 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4324 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4326 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4327 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4328 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4329 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4332 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4333 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4334 the different processes.
4336 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4338 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4340 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4341 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4343 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4344 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4346 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4347 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4348 messages matching specified criteria.
4350 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4352 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4353 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4355 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4356 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4357 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4358 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4359 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4360 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4361 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4362 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4363 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4364 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4366 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4367 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4368 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4370 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4372 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4373 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4374 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4375 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4376 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4377 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4378 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4381 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4382 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4384 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4386 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4388 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4390 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4391 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4392 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4393 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4394 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4395 size of the count of files.
4397 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4399 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4402 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4403 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4404 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4405 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4407 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4408 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4409 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4411 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4412 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4413 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4414 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4415 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4417 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4418 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4420 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4421 will now be deprecated.
4423 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4425 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4426 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4427 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4429 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4430 with very large, slow to parse queues
4432 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4434 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4436 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4437 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4438 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4441 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4442 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4443 Sieve code now uses this.
4445 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4446 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4448 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4449 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4451 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4453 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4454 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4455 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4456 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4457 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4459 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4460 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4461 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4462 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4464 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4466 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4468 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4469 is preferred over IPv4.
4471 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4472 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4473 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4474 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4475 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4476 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4477 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4479 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4480 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4481 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4483 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4485 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4486 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4487 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4488 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4489 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4490 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4491 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4492 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4493 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4494 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4495 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4497 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4498 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4499 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4505 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4507 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4508 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4510 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4511 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4512 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4514 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4516 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4519 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4522 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4523 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4524 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4527 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4528 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4530 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4531 inside the third argument.
4533 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4534 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4537 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4538 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4540 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4541 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4543 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4545 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4546 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4549 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4551 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4552 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4553 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4554 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4555 identical. For example:
4557 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4559 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4560 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4561 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4563 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4564 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4565 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4566 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4568 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4569 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4570 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4573 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4575 o fixes some comments
4576 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4577 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4578 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4579 and documents the missing references header update
4583 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4584 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4587 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4588 Electronic Mail") by including:
4590 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4592 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4593 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4594 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4595 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4596 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4598 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4600 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4602 The auto-replied keyword:
4604 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4605 message by an automatic process,
4607 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4609 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4610 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4612 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4613 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4616 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4617 to the default Received: header definition.
4619 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4621 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4622 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4623 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4625 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4626 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4627 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4629 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4630 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4631 and treats the condition as false.
4633 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4635 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4636 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4637 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4638 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4639 not changing the active code.
4641 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4642 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4644 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4645 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4647 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4650 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4651 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4652 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4653 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4654 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4655 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4656 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4657 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4658 the text comparison.
4660 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4661 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4662 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4663 The same fix has been applied.
4669 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4670 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4673 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4674 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4676 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4678 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4679 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4680 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4681 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4682 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4684 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4685 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4686 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4687 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4690 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4698 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4699 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4701 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4703 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4705 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4706 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4707 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4709 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4710 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4711 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4713 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4714 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4717 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4718 ${stat: expansion item.
4720 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4721 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4723 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4724 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4727 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4729 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4732 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4733 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4735 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4737 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4738 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4739 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4740 the end of the subprocess.
4742 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4743 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4744 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4745 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4746 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4748 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4750 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4752 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4753 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4755 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4757 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4759 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4760 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4763 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4765 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4766 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4767 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4769 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4770 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4772 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4773 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4775 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4776 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4778 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4779 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4781 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4782 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4783 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4784 contributed by a Radius user.
4786 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4787 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4789 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4790 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4792 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4795 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4796 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4799 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4800 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4801 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4802 header lines when this was not necessary.
4804 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4806 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4807 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4808 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4811 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4814 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4815 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4816 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4817 return code was incorrect.
4819 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4821 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4823 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4825 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4827 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4828 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4829 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4830 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4831 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4834 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4836 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4837 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4838 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4839 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4840 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4841 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4842 which is clearly wrong.
4844 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4846 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4847 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4848 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4851 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4852 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4854 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4856 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4857 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4859 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4860 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4862 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4863 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4865 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4866 recipients, not senders.
4868 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4869 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4871 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4873 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4875 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4876 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4877 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4878 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4880 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4882 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4883 clock is set back in time.
4885 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4886 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4888 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4889 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4891 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4892 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4895 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4896 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4899 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4902 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4904 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4905 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4906 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4908 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4909 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4910 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4911 helo verification defer as a failure.
4913 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4914 actual error message.
4920 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4922 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4923 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4924 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4925 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4927 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4929 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4930 can still be requested.
4932 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4933 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4934 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4935 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4937 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4938 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4939 circumstances, but probably never did.
4941 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4942 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4943 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4946 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4948 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4949 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4951 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4953 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4955 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4956 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4957 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4958 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4959 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4960 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4962 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4963 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4964 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4965 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4966 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4967 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4969 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4970 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4972 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4973 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4975 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4976 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4978 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4980 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4982 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4984 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4986 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4988 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4990 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4992 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4993 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4994 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4996 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4997 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4998 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4999 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5001 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5002 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5003 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5005 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5006 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5007 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5008 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5010 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5011 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5014 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5015 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5016 should work with maildirs and everything.
5018 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5019 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5021 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5024 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5025 function for BDB 4.3.
5027 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5029 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5030 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5033 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5034 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5035 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5036 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5037 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5038 formatting function string_vformat().
5040 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5041 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5042 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5043 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5044 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5045 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5046 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5047 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5049 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5050 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5053 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5054 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5056 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5057 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5058 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5059 test. It is now used for both.
5061 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5062 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5063 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5064 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5065 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5066 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5068 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5069 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5070 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5073 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5074 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5075 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5077 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5078 experimental DomainKeys support:
5080 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5081 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5082 the control was given.
5084 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5086 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5088 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5090 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5091 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5092 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5095 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5096 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5097 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5098 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5099 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5100 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5103 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5104 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5105 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5106 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5107 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5108 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5110 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5111 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5112 do -d+all out of habit.
5114 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5115 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5118 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5119 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5120 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5121 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5122 record types that Exim uses.
5124 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5125 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5126 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5127 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5128 non-existent file that was broken.
5130 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5131 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5133 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5134 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5135 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5137 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5139 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5140 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5141 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5142 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5143 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5146 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5147 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5148 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5149 at a slight CPU cost.
5151 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5152 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5154 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5157 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5159 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5160 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5166 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5167 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5169 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5171 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5173 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5174 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5176 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5177 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5178 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5179 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5180 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5181 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5184 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5185 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5186 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5187 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5190 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5191 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5192 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5193 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5194 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5195 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5196 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5199 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5200 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5202 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5203 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5204 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5205 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5206 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5207 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5209 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5210 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5211 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5212 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5214 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5217 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5218 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5220 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5221 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5222 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5223 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5226 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5228 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5229 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5231 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5232 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5233 to what was transported.)
5235 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5237 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5238 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5239 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5240 spamd_address settings.
5242 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5243 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5244 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5245 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5246 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5248 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5250 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5251 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5252 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5253 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5254 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5256 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5257 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5259 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5260 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5261 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5262 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5263 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5264 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5265 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5268 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5269 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5270 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5271 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5272 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5273 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5274 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5277 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5279 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5280 driver and ACL definitions.
5282 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5283 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5285 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5286 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5287 understands it better than I do:
5289 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5290 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5292 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5293 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5294 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5295 => three warnings about OTP not working
5296 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5298 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5299 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5300 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5301 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5303 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5304 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5306 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5307 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5308 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5310 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5311 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5314 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5315 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5318 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5319 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5320 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5322 warn !verify = sender
5323 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5325 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5326 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5328 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5330 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5331 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5333 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5334 nomenclature these days.)
5336 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5337 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5339 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5340 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5341 . First host does not offer TLS;
5342 . First host accepts first address;
5343 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5344 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5345 . Second host accepts second address.
5346 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5347 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5350 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5351 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5352 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5353 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5354 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5356 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5357 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5359 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5360 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5362 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5363 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5364 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5366 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5367 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5370 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5372 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5373 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5374 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5375 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5376 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5377 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5378 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5380 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5381 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5382 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5383 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5384 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5386 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5387 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5390 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5391 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5392 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5393 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5394 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5395 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5397 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5399 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5400 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5401 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5402 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5403 printable escape sequences.
5405 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5406 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5409 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5410 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5413 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5414 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5415 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5416 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5417 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5419 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5420 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5421 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5423 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5425 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5426 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5429 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5430 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5431 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5432 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5433 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5434 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5435 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5436 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5437 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5440 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5441 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5442 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5443 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5447 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5448 ----------------------------------------
5450 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5451 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5452 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5453 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5454 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5455 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5458 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5459 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5460 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5461 historical information.
5467 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5469 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5470 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5472 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5473 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5476 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5477 filter fails to execute.
5479 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5480 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5481 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5482 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5483 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5485 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5487 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5488 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5489 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5490 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5492 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5493 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5494 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5495 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5496 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5498 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5500 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5502 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5503 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5504 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5505 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5507 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5508 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5509 sender verification.
5511 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5512 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5514 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5516 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5519 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5520 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5522 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5523 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5525 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5526 information about exactly what failed.
5528 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5530 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5531 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5532 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5534 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5535 It is now set to "smtps".
5537 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5538 ignore_target_hosts.
5540 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5541 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5542 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5543 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5546 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5547 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5548 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5550 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5551 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5552 wake it up if nothing else does.
5554 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5555 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5556 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5559 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5560 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5562 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5564 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5565 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5566 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5567 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5568 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5569 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5570 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5571 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5573 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5574 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5575 than one IP address.
5577 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5578 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5579 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5580 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5582 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5583 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5584 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5585 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5586 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5589 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5590 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5591 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5592 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5594 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5595 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5598 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5599 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5600 $sender_host_address.
5602 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5603 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5604 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5605 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5606 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5609 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5611 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5612 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5614 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5615 just the host names, not the priorities.
5617 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5618 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5619 controlled by a keyword.
5621 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5622 multiple records are returned.
5624 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5625 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5628 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5630 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5631 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5633 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5634 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5635 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5637 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5639 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5641 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5643 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5644 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5645 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5646 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5647 because the tests only now provoked it.
5649 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5650 (this can affect the format of dates).
5652 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5653 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5654 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5655 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5657 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5659 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5660 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5661 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5662 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5664 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5665 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5666 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5668 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5671 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5672 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5673 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5674 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5675 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5676 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5679 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5680 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5681 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5684 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5685 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5686 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5688 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5689 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5690 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5691 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5692 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5693 so I produce this patch..."
5695 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5696 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5699 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5700 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5701 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5702 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5705 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5707 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5708 long debug lines gets shown.
5710 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5711 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5713 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5715 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5716 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5717 of $primary_hostname.
5719 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5720 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5721 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5722 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5723 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5724 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5725 by change 4.50/55 above.
5727 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5728 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5729 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5730 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5731 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5732 running as the user.
5735 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5736 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5737 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5740 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5741 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5743 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5744 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5745 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5746 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5747 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5749 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5750 This has been fixed.
5752 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5753 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5754 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5755 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5758 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5760 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5761 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5762 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5763 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5765 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5766 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5768 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5769 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5770 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5772 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5773 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5774 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5777 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5778 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5779 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5781 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5782 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5783 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5784 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5786 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5787 during host lookups.
5789 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5790 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5792 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5794 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5795 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5796 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5797 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5798 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5801 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5802 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5804 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5805 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5806 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5808 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5810 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5811 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5812 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5813 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5814 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5815 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5818 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5819 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5820 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5821 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5822 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5824 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5827 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5829 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5830 "vacation" handling.
5832 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5833 OS variants using glibc.
5835 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5838 ----------------------------------------------------
5839 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5840 ----------------------------------------------------
5846 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5847 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5850 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5851 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5854 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5855 filter fails to execute.
5857 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5858 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5859 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5860 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5861 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5863 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5864 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5865 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5866 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5868 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5869 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5870 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5871 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5872 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5874 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5876 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5877 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5878 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5879 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5881 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5882 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5883 sender verification.
5885 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5886 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5888 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5889 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5891 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5892 ignore_target_hosts.
5894 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5895 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5896 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5897 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5900 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5901 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5902 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5904 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5905 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5906 wake it up if nothing else does.
5908 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5909 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5910 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5913 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5914 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5916 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5918 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5919 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5922 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5923 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5926 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5927 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5928 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5929 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5930 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5933 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5934 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5937 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5938 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5939 $sender_host_address.
5941 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5943 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5944 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5945 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5947 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5950 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5951 (this can affect the format of dates).
5953 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5954 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5955 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5956 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5958 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5959 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5960 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5962 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5963 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5964 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5965 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5967 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5968 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5969 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5971 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5974 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5975 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5976 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5977 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5978 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5979 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5982 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5983 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5984 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5985 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5988 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5989 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5990 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5991 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5992 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5993 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5994 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5996 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5997 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5998 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5999 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6000 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6001 running as the user.
6004 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6005 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6006 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6009 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6010 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6011 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6012 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6013 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6015 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6016 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6017 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6018 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6021 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6022 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6023 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6024 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6025 because the tests only now provoked it.
6031 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6032 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6033 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6034 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6035 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6036 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6037 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6039 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6040 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6043 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6045 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6047 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6048 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6051 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6052 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6053 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6054 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6055 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6057 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6058 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6060 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6062 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6064 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6067 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6068 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6070 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6071 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6072 affecting debugging statements).
6074 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6076 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6077 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6078 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6079 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6080 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6081 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6082 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6083 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6084 after the received time, and all would be well.
6086 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6087 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6088 condition in an expansion string.
6090 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6092 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6093 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6094 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6095 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6096 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6097 job under whatever limits there are.
6099 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6101 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6104 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6105 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6106 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6107 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6110 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6111 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6112 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6113 binary data in such strings.
6115 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6117 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6118 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6119 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6120 failure, which is pointless.
6122 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6124 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6126 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6127 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6128 Sender: header lines.
6130 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6131 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6132 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6134 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6135 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6136 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6137 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6138 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6141 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6142 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6143 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6144 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6145 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6147 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6148 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6149 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6152 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6153 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6155 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6156 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6158 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6160 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6162 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6164 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6167 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6169 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6171 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6172 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6173 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6174 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6176 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6177 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6183 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6184 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6185 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6187 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6188 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6189 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6190 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6191 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6192 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6194 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6195 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6196 verification failure".
6198 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6199 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6200 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6201 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6203 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6204 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6205 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6206 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6207 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6208 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6209 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6210 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6211 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6212 treated as a timeout.
6214 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6215 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6216 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6217 not set for Exim filters).
6219 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6220 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6221 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6223 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6225 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6226 try to make them clearer.
6228 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6229 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6231 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6233 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6235 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6236 only the Cygwin environment.
6238 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6239 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6240 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6241 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6242 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6244 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6245 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6246 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6247 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6248 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6249 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6250 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6252 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6253 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6255 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6257 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6258 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6259 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6261 To: susanne@some.where
6263 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6264 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6265 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6266 of addresses in From: header lines).
6268 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6269 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6270 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6272 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6273 treated as non-personal.
6275 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6276 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6278 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6280 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6282 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6283 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6284 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6286 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6287 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6289 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6290 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6291 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6292 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6293 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6294 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6296 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6297 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6298 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6299 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6300 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6301 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6302 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6303 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6305 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6307 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6308 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6310 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6311 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6312 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6314 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6315 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6317 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6318 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6319 rather than long int.
6321 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6323 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6329 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6330 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6331 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6332 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6333 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6334 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6340 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6341 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6343 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6344 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6345 socklen_t is defined.
6347 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6350 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6353 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6354 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6355 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6356 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6357 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6359 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6360 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6361 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6362 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6364 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6365 of flapping under certain conditions.
6367 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6368 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6369 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6371 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6373 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6375 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6376 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6377 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6378 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6380 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6381 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6382 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6383 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6384 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6385 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6386 preserved with the message after it was received.
6388 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6389 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6390 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6391 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6392 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6393 test suite worked just fine.
6395 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6396 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6397 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6399 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6400 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6403 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6404 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6405 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6406 does not fully solve it.
6408 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6409 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6410 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6411 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6412 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6414 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6415 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6416 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6418 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6419 string, for example:
6421 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6423 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6424 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6425 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6426 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6427 the routers could not see them.
6429 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6430 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6432 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6433 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6436 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6437 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6438 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6439 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6440 that needed quoting.
6442 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6443 was not being matched caselessly.
6445 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6448 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6449 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6450 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6451 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6452 when use_sender is false.
6454 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6456 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6458 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6460 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6461 the configuration file.
6463 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6464 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6466 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6468 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6469 bytes in the message body.
6471 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6472 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6475 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6477 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6479 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6480 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6481 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6482 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6489 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6490 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6492 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6493 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6494 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6495 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6496 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6498 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6499 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6501 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6502 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6503 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6505 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6506 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6507 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6509 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6512 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6513 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6514 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6515 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6516 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6517 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6518 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6524 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6525 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6526 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6527 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6528 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6529 default (and expected) setting.
6531 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6532 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6533 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6534 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6536 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6537 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6539 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6542 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6543 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6544 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6545 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6546 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6547 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6549 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6550 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6551 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6553 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6554 part (NOT match_host).
6556 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6558 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6559 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6560 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6561 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6562 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6563 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6564 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6565 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6566 the same named file.
6568 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6569 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6572 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6573 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6574 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6575 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6578 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6579 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6580 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6582 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6584 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6586 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6588 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6589 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6591 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6592 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6593 before starting the TLS session.
6595 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6597 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6598 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6600 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6601 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6602 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6603 colon in the middle).
6609 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6610 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6611 multiple configurations are in use.
6613 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6614 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6615 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6616 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6617 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6618 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6620 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6621 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6623 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6624 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6625 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6627 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6628 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6631 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6632 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6634 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6636 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6637 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6639 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6647 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6648 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6649 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6650 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6651 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6653 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6656 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6657 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6658 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6659 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6660 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6661 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6663 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6664 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6665 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6666 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6667 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6668 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6669 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6672 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6673 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6674 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6675 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6676 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6678 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6680 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6681 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6682 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6684 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6686 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6687 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6688 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6691 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6692 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6694 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6695 Three changes have been made:
6697 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6698 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6699 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6700 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6701 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6703 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6706 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6707 the modified behaviour.
6713 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6716 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6717 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6719 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6720 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6721 try to track down a specific problem.
6723 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6724 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6725 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6727 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6730 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6731 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6732 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6733 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6734 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6735 some earlier ones do not.
6737 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6739 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6740 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6741 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6742 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6743 address literals are enabled, of course).
6745 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6747 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6748 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6749 by a command such as
6753 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6755 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6757 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6758 remained set. It is now erased.
6760 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6761 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6763 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6764 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6765 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6766 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6767 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6768 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6769 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6770 appropriate error code.
6772 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6773 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6774 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6775 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6776 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6777 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6779 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6780 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6781 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6783 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6784 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6785 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6786 terminate the header.
6788 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6789 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6790 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6792 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6793 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6794 (4.30/29). In particular:
6796 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6799 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6800 to write a maildirsize file.
6802 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6803 the transport, the new value overrides.
6805 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6808 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6809 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6810 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6813 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6814 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6815 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6818 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6819 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6820 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6822 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6823 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6826 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6827 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6828 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6830 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6832 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6834 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6836 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6837 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6840 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6841 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6842 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6843 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6844 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6845 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6846 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6849 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6850 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6851 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6852 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6853 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6856 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6857 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6858 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6859 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6860 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6861 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6862 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6863 cached value only when the same options are set.
6865 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6867 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6868 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6869 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6870 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6871 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6873 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6874 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6875 it is clearly obsolete.
6877 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6880 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6881 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6882 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6885 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6886 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6887 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6888 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6889 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6891 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6892 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6893 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6894 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6896 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6898 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6900 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6901 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6904 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6905 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6906 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6907 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6908 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6909 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6912 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6913 with the -f command-line option.
6915 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6916 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6917 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6918 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6919 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6920 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6922 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6923 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6926 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6927 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6928 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6929 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6930 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6931 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6932 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6933 buffer is too small.
6935 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6936 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6938 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6939 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6940 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6941 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6942 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6943 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6944 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6945 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6946 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6948 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6949 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6950 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6952 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6953 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6956 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6957 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6958 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6959 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6960 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6962 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6963 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6964 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6965 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6968 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6970 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6972 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6973 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6975 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6976 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6977 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6979 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6980 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6981 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6982 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6983 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6985 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6986 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6987 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6988 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6989 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6990 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6991 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6993 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6994 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6995 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6996 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6997 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6998 the test of how many are available.
7000 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7001 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7002 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7003 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7004 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7005 new message is started.
7007 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7008 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7010 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7011 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7013 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7014 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7015 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7018 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7019 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7020 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7021 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7022 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7023 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7024 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7026 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7027 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7028 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7029 interpreted as octal.
7031 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7034 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7035 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7036 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7037 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7038 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7039 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7041 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7042 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7043 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7044 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7046 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7047 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7048 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7049 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7051 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7052 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7055 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7056 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7058 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7060 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7061 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7062 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7063 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7065 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7066 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7067 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7068 supplied", which is not helpful.
7070 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7071 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7072 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7074 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7075 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7076 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7077 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7078 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7079 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7080 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7081 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7083 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7084 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7085 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7086 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7087 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7089 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7090 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7091 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7092 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7093 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7094 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7096 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7097 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7098 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7100 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7102 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7103 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7104 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7107 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7109 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7110 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7111 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7112 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7113 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7114 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7115 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7116 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7118 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7119 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7120 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7121 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7122 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7124 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7127 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7128 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7129 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7130 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7131 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7132 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7133 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7134 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7135 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7141 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7142 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7143 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7145 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7148 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7149 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7150 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7152 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7153 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7154 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7155 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7156 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7157 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7159 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7160 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7161 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7162 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7163 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7164 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7165 the Exim test suite.
7167 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7168 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7169 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7170 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7172 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7173 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7174 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7175 specify it in this variable.
7177 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7178 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7179 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7180 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7182 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7183 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7184 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7185 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7187 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7188 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7189 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7190 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7191 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7193 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7195 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7198 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7199 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7200 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7201 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7202 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7204 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7205 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7207 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7208 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7209 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7210 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7211 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7213 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7214 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7216 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7217 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7218 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7220 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7221 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7223 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7224 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7226 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7227 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7228 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7230 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7231 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7233 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7234 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7235 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7236 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7238 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7240 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7241 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7242 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7243 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7245 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7247 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7248 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7250 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7252 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7253 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7254 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7255 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7256 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7257 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7259 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7261 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7262 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7265 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7267 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7268 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7270 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7271 550 Sender verify failed
7273 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7274 the final line of the response.
7276 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7277 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7278 all other user lookups.
7280 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7283 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7284 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7285 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7286 result into an int without checking.
7288 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7289 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7290 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7292 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7293 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7294 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7295 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7297 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7300 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7301 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7303 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7304 to the empty sender.
7306 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7307 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7308 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7309 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7310 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7311 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7312 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7315 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7316 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7317 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7318 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7321 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7322 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7324 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7327 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7328 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7330 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7332 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7333 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7336 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7337 as soon as it is encountered.
7339 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7341 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7344 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7345 recognizes a tab character.
7347 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7348 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7349 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7350 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7352 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7354 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7357 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7359 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7361 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7362 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7365 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7366 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7367 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7368 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7369 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7371 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7372 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7374 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7375 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7376 list (.included file names were always shown).
7378 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7379 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7380 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7383 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7384 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7386 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7388 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7390 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7392 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7393 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7394 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7395 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7396 failures to open the logs.
7398 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7399 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7400 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7401 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7402 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7403 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7404 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7410 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7411 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7412 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7415 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7416 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7417 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7419 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7420 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7421 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7423 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7424 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7425 causing some misleading effects.
7427 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7428 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7429 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7431 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7432 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7433 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7434 queue-runner function directly.
7440 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7443 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7444 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7445 was always written to the default place.
7447 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7448 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7449 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7451 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7453 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7455 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7456 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7457 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7459 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7460 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7463 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7464 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7465 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7467 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7468 command line option is disabled.
7470 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7471 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7473 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7475 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7477 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7478 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7480 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7482 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7483 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7484 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7485 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7486 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7487 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7489 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7490 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7493 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7494 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7496 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7497 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7499 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7500 received was valid base64.
7502 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7503 name of the variable that was being set.
7505 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7507 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7508 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7509 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7510 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7511 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7512 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7514 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7516 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7517 nor realm was specified.
7519 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7520 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7521 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7522 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7524 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7525 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7526 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7528 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7529 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7530 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7532 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7533 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7534 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7535 some systems use these upper case variants.
7537 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7538 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7539 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7540 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7542 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7544 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7545 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7547 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7548 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7551 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7553 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7554 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7555 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7556 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7558 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7561 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7562 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7563 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7565 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7566 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7568 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7569 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7570 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7571 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7573 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7574 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7575 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7577 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7579 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7580 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7581 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7582 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7585 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7586 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7587 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7589 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7591 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7592 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7594 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7595 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7597 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7598 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7599 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7600 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7601 when emails are that large.
7608 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7609 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7611 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7612 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7613 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7615 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7616 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7617 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7619 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7620 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7621 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7622 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7623 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7625 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7626 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7627 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7628 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7629 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7632 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7633 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7634 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7635 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7636 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7637 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7638 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7639 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7640 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7641 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7642 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7643 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7644 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7645 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7647 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7648 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7651 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7652 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7653 error should be diagnosed.
7655 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7656 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7657 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7658 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7659 appeared instead of "NULL".
7661 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7662 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7663 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7664 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7665 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7666 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7669 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7670 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7671 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7677 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7678 or receiver verification errors.
7680 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7683 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7684 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7685 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7686 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7688 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7689 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7690 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7691 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7692 shouldn't happen again.
7694 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7695 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7696 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7698 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7699 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7701 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7703 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7704 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7706 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7707 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7710 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7711 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7712 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7714 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7715 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7716 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7717 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7719 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7720 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7721 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7722 to define what should happen).
7724 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7725 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7726 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7728 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7730 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7732 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7733 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7735 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7736 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7737 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7738 structure in all cases.
7740 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7741 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7742 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7743 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7745 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7746 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7749 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7750 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7752 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7753 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7755 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7756 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7757 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7759 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7760 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7761 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7763 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7764 the book and for uniformity.
7766 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7768 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7769 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7770 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7771 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7772 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7773 non-existent command as the problem.
7775 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7776 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7777 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7779 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7781 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7782 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7783 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7785 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7786 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7787 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7788 timestamps using strftime().
7790 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7791 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7793 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7794 transport-time rewrites.
7796 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7797 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7798 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7799 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7801 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7802 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7804 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7805 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7806 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7807 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7810 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7811 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7812 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7813 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7814 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7815 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7816 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7818 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7819 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7820 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7821 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7822 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7824 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7825 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7826 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7827 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7828 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7829 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7830 remaining text gets split now.
7832 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7833 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7834 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7835 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7837 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7838 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7839 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7840 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7843 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7844 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7845 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7846 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7847 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7848 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7849 passed through if needed.
7851 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7852 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7853 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7854 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7855 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7856 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7858 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7859 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7860 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7861 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7862 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7864 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7865 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7866 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7867 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7868 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7870 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7871 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7874 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7875 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7876 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7877 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7878 mayhem of various kinds.
7880 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7881 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7882 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7883 the right test for positive values.
7885 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7886 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7887 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7888 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7889 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7890 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7891 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7892 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7893 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7894 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7897 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7900 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7901 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7904 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7905 the existing equality matching.
7907 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7908 dealing with inode numbers.
7910 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7911 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7912 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7914 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7915 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7916 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7917 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7920 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7921 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7922 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7923 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7924 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7925 relay addresses has also been removed.
7927 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7929 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7930 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7931 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7933 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7934 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7935 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7936 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7937 processing applies to CR:
7939 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7940 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7942 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7943 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7944 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7945 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7947 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7948 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7949 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7951 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7952 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7953 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7954 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7955 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7956 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7959 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7962 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7963 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7964 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7965 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7968 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7970 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7972 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7974 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7975 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7976 not considered personal.
7978 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7980 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7982 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7984 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7985 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7986 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7987 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7988 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7989 header lines, and spool format errors.
7991 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7992 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7993 for more flexibility.
7995 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7996 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7997 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7999 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8002 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8003 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8004 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8005 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8006 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8007 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8008 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8009 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8010 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8012 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8013 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8014 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8015 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8016 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8017 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8018 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8020 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8021 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8022 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8024 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8025 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8026 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8027 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8028 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8029 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8030 instead of killing the process with assert().
8032 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8033 than Unicode encoding.
8035 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8036 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8037 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8038 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8040 77. Added process_log_path.
8042 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8043 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8045 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8046 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8048 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8049 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8050 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8052 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8053 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8054 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8055 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8056 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8059 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8060 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8063 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8064 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8065 they will be used during message reception.
8071 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.