1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
28 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
29 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
30 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
32 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
33 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
34 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
35 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
37 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
38 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
39 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
40 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
41 so could be handling tainted values.
43 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
44 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
45 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
47 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
48 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
49 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
52 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
53 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
54 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
55 to align better with RFC 6125.
57 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
58 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
59 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
60 by adding a release action in that path.
62 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
63 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
64 dynamically-created buffers.
66 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
67 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
68 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
69 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
71 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
72 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
73 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
74 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
76 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
77 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
78 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
80 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
81 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
82 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
83 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
85 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
86 excluded, not matching the documentation.
88 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
89 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
91 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
92 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
93 this was a coding error.
95 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
96 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
97 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
98 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
99 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
100 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
101 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
103 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
104 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
105 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
106 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
108 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
109 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
110 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
111 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
112 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
114 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
115 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
118 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
119 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
120 domain-parking registrar.
122 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
123 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
124 after removing the newline.
126 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
127 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
128 option set, which was previously used.
130 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
133 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
134 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
135 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
136 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
138 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
139 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
140 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
141 exim.dev.20160529.3).
143 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
144 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
145 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
147 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
148 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
149 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
152 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
153 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
154 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
156 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
157 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
158 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
159 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
162 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
163 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
164 there, handle PRX and TFO.
166 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
167 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
168 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
169 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
170 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
172 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
173 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
174 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
175 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
178 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
179 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
181 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
184 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
185 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
186 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
187 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
188 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
190 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
192 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
193 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
194 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
195 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
196 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
197 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
199 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
200 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
202 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
203 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
204 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
206 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
207 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
210 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
211 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
212 of a new variable: $auth4.
214 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
215 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
216 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
217 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
218 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
220 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
221 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
222 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
223 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
225 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
226 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
227 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
229 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
230 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
231 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
232 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
235 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
236 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
237 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
240 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
241 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
242 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
243 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
245 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
246 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
248 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
249 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
250 looked as if if might be one.
252 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
253 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
254 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
255 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
256 messages can show the proxy information.
258 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
259 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
260 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
261 "queue_time_exclusive".
263 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
264 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
265 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
267 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
268 making it unusable in complex expressions.
270 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
271 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
274 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
276 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
278 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
280 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
281 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
282 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
283 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
285 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
286 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
288 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
289 better. Reported by Qualys.
291 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
292 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
295 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
297 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
300 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
302 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
303 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
304 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
305 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
307 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
308 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
310 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
311 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
312 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
313 mode until after various protocol state checks.
314 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
316 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
318 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
319 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
321 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
324 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
325 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
326 executed child processes (if any).
328 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
331 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
332 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
333 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
334 been reported on other platforms.
336 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
338 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
339 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
340 Not supported on Solaris 10.
342 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
343 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
344 since fakereject was originally introduced.
346 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
347 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
349 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
350 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
351 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
354 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
355 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
356 which only permit IP addresses.
362 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
363 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
364 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
366 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
368 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
369 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
372 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
373 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
374 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
376 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
378 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
380 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
381 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
382 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
384 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
385 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
386 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
388 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
389 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
391 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
392 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
395 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
396 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
397 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
398 should both provide the file and set the option.
399 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
401 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
402 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
404 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
405 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
406 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
407 Authentication-Results: header.
409 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
410 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
411 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
412 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
414 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
415 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
416 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
417 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
418 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
419 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
420 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
422 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
423 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
424 copies while it is still usable.
426 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
427 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
428 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
430 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
431 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
433 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
434 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
435 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
436 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
438 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
439 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
440 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
443 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
444 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
445 - the pipe transport command
446 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
447 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
449 - paths used by single-key lookups
450 Previously this was permitted.
452 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
453 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
454 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
455 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
457 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
458 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
459 support larger malloc requests.
461 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
462 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
463 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
464 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
466 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
467 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
468 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
469 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
472 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
473 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
474 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
475 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
476 data being length-specified.
478 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
479 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
480 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
481 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
483 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
484 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
485 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
486 not being properly tracked.
488 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
489 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
490 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
491 minute could be seen.
493 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
494 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
495 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
497 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
498 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
500 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
501 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
504 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
506 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
507 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
509 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
510 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
511 filesystem as sufficient validation.
513 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
514 argument is supplied.
516 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
517 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
518 access under Exim's current working directory.
520 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
521 Previously no event was raised.
523 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
524 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
525 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
528 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
529 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
530 the size of the signature hash.
532 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
533 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
535 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
536 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
537 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
538 dropped between messages.
540 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
541 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
542 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
543 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
545 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
546 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
547 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
548 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
549 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
550 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
551 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
552 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
553 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
555 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
556 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
557 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
559 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
560 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
567 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
568 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
570 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
571 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
574 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
577 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
579 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
581 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
582 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
584 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
585 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
586 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
587 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
588 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
589 suitably configured).
591 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
592 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
594 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
595 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
598 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
599 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
601 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
602 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
603 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
604 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
607 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
608 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
609 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
611 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
614 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
615 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
617 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
618 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
619 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
620 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
623 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
624 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
625 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
626 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
629 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
630 shared (NFS) environment.
632 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
633 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
636 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
637 on some platforms for bit 31.
639 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
640 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
641 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
642 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
643 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
644 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
645 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
646 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
648 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
650 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
651 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
653 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
654 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
657 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
658 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
661 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
662 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
663 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
666 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
667 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
668 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
670 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
671 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
672 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
673 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
674 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
676 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
679 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
680 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
681 be requested on all coneections.
683 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
684 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
686 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
688 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
689 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
690 one for these; the option was ignored.
692 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
693 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
694 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
695 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
697 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
698 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
699 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
702 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
703 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
704 error ignored was made.
706 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
708 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
709 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
710 values, to catch one form of exploit.
712 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
713 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
714 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
716 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
717 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
720 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
721 them in our smtp response.
723 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
724 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
725 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
726 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
727 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
729 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
730 link count into consideration.
732 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
733 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
735 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
736 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
737 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
740 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
742 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
744 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
746 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
747 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
748 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
749 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
751 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
753 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
754 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
757 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
758 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
759 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
761 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
762 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
763 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
765 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
766 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
767 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
768 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
769 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
770 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
771 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
772 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
774 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
775 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
776 resulted in an indefinite loop.
778 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
779 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
780 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
786 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
787 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
789 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
790 non-signal-safe functions being used.
792 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
793 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
794 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
796 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
797 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
798 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
800 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
801 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
802 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
803 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
804 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
807 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
808 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
810 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
811 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
812 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
813 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
814 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
815 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
816 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
818 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
819 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
821 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
824 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
825 Previously this would segfault.
827 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
830 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
831 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
832 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
833 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
834 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
835 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
837 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
839 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
840 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
841 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
842 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
844 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
846 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
847 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
848 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
849 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
851 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
853 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
855 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
856 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
857 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
859 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
860 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
861 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
863 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
865 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
866 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
867 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
868 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
870 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
871 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
872 promised '?' replacement.
874 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
876 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
877 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
878 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
879 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
880 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
882 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
883 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
884 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
886 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
887 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
888 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
890 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
891 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
892 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
894 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
895 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
896 hope that is portable enough.
898 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
899 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
900 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
901 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
903 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
904 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
905 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
907 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
908 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
909 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
910 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
912 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
913 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
915 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
916 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
917 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
918 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
920 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
921 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
922 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
924 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
925 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
926 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
927 the previous G, M, k.
929 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
930 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
933 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
934 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
935 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
936 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
938 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
939 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
941 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
942 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
943 off past the nul-terimation.
945 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
946 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
947 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
948 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
949 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
951 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
953 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
954 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
955 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
958 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
959 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
961 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
962 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
963 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
965 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
966 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
967 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
969 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
970 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
976 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
977 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
978 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
979 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
980 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
981 be defined in redis_servers.
983 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
984 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
986 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
987 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
988 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
989 extant use locations.
991 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
992 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
994 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
995 Previously only the last row was returned.
997 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
998 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
999 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1000 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1003 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1004 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1005 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1006 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1007 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1008 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1009 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1010 Main pool for expansions.
1011 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1012 active in the testsuite.
1013 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1015 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1016 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1017 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1018 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1021 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1022 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1025 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1026 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1027 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1029 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1030 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1031 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1033 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1034 rows affected is given instead).
1036 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1037 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1039 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1040 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1041 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1042 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1043 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1045 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1046 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1047 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1049 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1050 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1051 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1052 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1055 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1056 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1057 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1060 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1062 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1063 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1065 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1066 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1067 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1069 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1070 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1071 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1074 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1075 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1077 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1078 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1079 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1081 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1082 for the build is renamed.
1084 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1085 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1086 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1088 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1089 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1090 result replacing the original.
1092 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1093 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1094 and the resources needed to be freed.
1096 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1098 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1101 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1102 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1103 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1104 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1106 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1107 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1109 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1110 newer versions of the scanner.
1112 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1113 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1114 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1115 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1116 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1117 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1118 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1120 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1121 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1122 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1123 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1124 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1125 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1126 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1127 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1128 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1129 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1131 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1132 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1134 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1136 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1137 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1139 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1140 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1142 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1143 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1144 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1146 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1147 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1148 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1149 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1151 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1152 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1155 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1156 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1158 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1159 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1160 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1161 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1162 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1164 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1165 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1168 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1169 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1171 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1174 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1175 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1176 "bare" representation.
1178 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1179 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1180 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1181 corrupted the output.
1187 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1188 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1189 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1190 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1192 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1193 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1195 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1196 This permits better logging.
1198 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1199 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1200 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1201 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1202 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1203 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1205 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1206 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1209 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1210 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1211 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1213 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1214 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1216 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1217 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1218 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1219 client, there is no benefit for these.
1220 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1221 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1222 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1225 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1226 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1228 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1229 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1230 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1232 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1233 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1235 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1236 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1237 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1238 signature and again for transmission.
1240 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1241 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1242 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1244 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1245 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1246 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1247 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1248 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1249 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1250 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1252 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1253 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1254 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1255 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1257 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1258 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1259 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1260 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1261 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1262 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1265 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1266 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1267 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1268 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1271 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1272 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1273 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1274 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1277 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1278 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1281 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1282 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1283 banner-time rejection.
1285 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1288 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1289 is the name of a transport.
1292 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1294 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1295 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1297 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1298 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1299 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1302 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1303 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1304 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1305 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1307 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1308 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1309 initial verify call returned a defer.
1311 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1312 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1314 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1315 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1317 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1318 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1320 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1321 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1323 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1324 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1327 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1328 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1330 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1331 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1332 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1334 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1335 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1336 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1337 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1339 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1340 and confused the parent.
1342 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1343 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1345 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1348 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1349 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1350 out-of-order delivery.
1352 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1353 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1354 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1357 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1358 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1361 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1362 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1363 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1365 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1366 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1367 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1368 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1369 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1370 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1372 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1373 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1374 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1376 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1377 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1378 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1380 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1381 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1382 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1383 though a different problem.
1389 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1390 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1392 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1394 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1395 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1397 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1398 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1400 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1401 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1402 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1403 before acknowledging the chunk.
1405 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1406 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1407 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1409 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1410 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1411 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1414 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1415 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1416 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1418 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1419 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1421 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1422 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1423 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1424 body hash calculated value.
1426 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1427 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1428 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1430 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1432 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1433 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1435 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1436 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1437 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1439 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1440 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1441 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1442 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1443 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1444 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1446 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1447 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1448 past that check, despite the cost.
1450 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1451 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1452 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1454 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1455 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1456 TLS library to consume.
1458 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1460 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1462 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1463 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1464 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1465 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1466 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1467 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1468 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1470 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1472 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1474 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1475 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1476 should be warning-free.
1478 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1480 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1481 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1483 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1484 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1485 general solution here.
1487 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1488 already-broken messages in the queue.
1490 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1492 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1498 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1499 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1501 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1502 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1503 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1505 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1506 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1507 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1508 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1509 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1510 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1511 if one fails this test.
1512 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1513 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1515 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1516 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1518 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1519 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1521 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1522 in rewrites and routers.
1524 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1525 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1527 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1528 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1530 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1532 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1535 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1536 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1537 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1538 connection after a verify cache hit.
1539 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1541 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1542 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1544 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1545 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1546 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1547 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1548 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1550 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1551 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1553 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1554 Previously they were not counted.
1556 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1557 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1558 that needed the lookup.
1560 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1561 distinguished as "(=".
1563 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1564 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1566 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1568 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1569 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1571 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1572 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1574 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1575 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1578 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1579 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1580 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1581 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1583 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1585 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1586 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1587 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1589 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1590 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1591 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1594 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1595 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1596 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1599 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1600 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1601 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1603 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1604 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1607 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1609 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1610 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1612 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1613 are not in the system include path.
1615 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1616 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1617 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1618 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1620 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1621 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1622 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1624 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1626 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1627 an incoming connection.
1629 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1632 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1633 fallback to "prime256v1".
1635 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1636 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1642 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1643 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1644 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1645 client dropping the TLS connection.
1647 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1648 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1650 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1651 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1652 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1653 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1656 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1657 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1658 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1659 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1660 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1661 check on the next write.
1663 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1664 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1665 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1666 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1667 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1669 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1670 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1672 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1673 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1674 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1676 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1677 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1678 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1679 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1681 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1682 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1684 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1685 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1687 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1688 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1689 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1692 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1694 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1696 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1698 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1699 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1701 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1702 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1704 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1706 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1707 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1709 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1711 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1712 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1714 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1716 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1717 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1718 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1719 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1720 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1721 they will retry in-clear.
1722 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1723 at installation time.
1725 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1726 with the $config_file variable.
1728 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1729 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1730 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1731 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1732 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1734 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1735 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1736 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1737 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1738 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1740 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1742 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1743 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1744 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1745 list order is no longer honoured.
1747 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1748 for DKIM processing.
1750 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1751 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1753 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1754 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1755 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1756 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1758 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1759 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1761 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1762 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1764 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1765 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1767 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1769 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1770 cached by the daemon.
1772 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1773 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1775 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1776 keys are given for lookup.
1778 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1779 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1780 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1781 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1783 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1784 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1785 server-side so match that on older versions.
1787 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1788 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1789 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1791 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1792 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1794 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1795 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1796 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1797 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1798 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1799 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1800 initial truncated version.
1802 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1804 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1806 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1807 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1809 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1811 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1813 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1814 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1817 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1818 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1821 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1822 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1824 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1825 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1828 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1829 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1830 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1832 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1833 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1834 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1835 extraction. Accept either.
1841 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1844 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1846 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1849 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1850 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1851 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1852 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1854 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1855 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1856 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1858 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1859 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1860 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1863 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1866 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1867 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1868 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1869 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1870 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1872 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1873 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1874 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1876 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1878 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1879 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1881 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1882 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1884 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1887 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1888 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1890 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1891 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1892 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1894 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1895 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1896 specify a port-range.
1898 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1899 timeout value per server.
1901 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1902 now have the list separator specified.
1904 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1907 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1910 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1912 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1913 rather than the verbs used.
1915 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1916 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1918 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1920 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1921 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1923 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1924 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1926 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1927 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1929 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1931 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1933 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1934 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1935 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1936 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1938 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1940 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1941 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1943 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1944 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1946 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1948 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1950 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1952 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1953 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1955 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1956 added for tls authenticator.
1958 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1964 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1965 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1966 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1967 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1968 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1969 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1970 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1972 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1973 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1974 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1975 function when detected.
1977 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1978 cause callback expansion.
1980 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1981 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1982 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1983 instead of bool when processing it.
1985 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1986 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1988 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1990 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1992 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1994 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1995 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1997 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1998 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1999 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2000 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2001 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2002 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2004 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2005 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2008 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2009 version 3.3.6 or later.
2011 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2012 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2013 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2014 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2015 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2016 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2019 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2020 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2022 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2023 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2024 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2027 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2028 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2029 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2031 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2032 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2034 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2035 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2038 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2040 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2041 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2043 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2044 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2047 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2049 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2052 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2053 output list separator was used.
2058 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2059 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2062 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2063 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2065 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2067 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2068 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2074 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2076 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2077 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2078 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2079 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2080 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2081 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2083 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2084 utilities have not been installed.
2086 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2087 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2089 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2090 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2092 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2093 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2094 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2095 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2097 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2099 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2100 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2102 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2105 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2107 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2108 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2109 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2111 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2112 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2113 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2114 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2115 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2116 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2118 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2120 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2121 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2123 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2126 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2128 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2130 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2131 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2133 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2134 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2136 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2138 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2140 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2141 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2143 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2144 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2145 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2147 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2148 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2149 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2152 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2154 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2155 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2158 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2159 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2162 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2163 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2165 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2166 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2168 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2170 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2171 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2172 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2174 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2175 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2177 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2178 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2181 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2182 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2183 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2185 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2187 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2188 Christian Aistleitner.
2190 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2192 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2193 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2195 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2196 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2198 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2199 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2201 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2202 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2204 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2205 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2207 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2208 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2209 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2211 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2213 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2214 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2217 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2219 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2220 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2227 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2229 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2230 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2232 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2235 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2236 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2239 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2241 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2242 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2243 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2244 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2245 using channel bindings instead).
2247 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2248 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2249 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2250 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2251 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2254 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2256 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2258 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2259 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2261 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2262 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2263 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2265 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2267 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2269 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2270 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2272 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2274 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2276 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2278 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2279 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2281 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2283 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2284 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2287 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2288 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2290 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2291 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2294 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2296 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2298 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2299 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2301 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2304 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2305 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2307 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2308 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2310 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2312 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2314 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2317 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2320 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2322 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2323 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2324 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2325 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2327 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2329 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2330 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2331 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2332 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2335 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2336 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2337 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2339 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2340 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2341 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2342 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2344 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2345 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2346 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2347 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2348 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2349 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2350 delivery, as in LMTP.
2352 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2353 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2355 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2357 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2361 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2362 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2363 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2364 username as equal to the username.
2366 This change corrects that bug.
2368 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2369 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2370 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2372 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2374 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2375 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2376 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2377 NULL dereference and crash.
2379 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2381 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2382 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2383 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2385 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2387 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2388 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2389 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2390 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2391 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2392 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2393 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2394 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2395 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2396 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2397 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2399 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2400 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2402 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2403 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2406 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2407 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2408 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2409 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2410 an empty string is now equivalent.
2412 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2413 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2414 not performing validation itself.
2416 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2417 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2419 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2422 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2424 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2425 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2426 other false fix of the same issue.
2427 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2430 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2431 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2433 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2434 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2435 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2437 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2438 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2439 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2441 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2443 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2445 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2446 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2448 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2451 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2452 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2453 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2454 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2455 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2457 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2458 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2460 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2461 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2464 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2465 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2466 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2467 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2469 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2471 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2472 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2473 from multiple comments on this bug.
2475 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2477 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2478 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2481 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2482 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2484 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2485 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2491 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2493 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2499 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2500 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2501 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2503 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2505 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2508 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2510 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2512 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2514 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2515 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2517 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2518 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2520 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2521 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2523 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2524 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2525 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2527 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2529 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2530 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2532 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2534 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2536 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2537 non-compliant senders.
2538 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2540 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2541 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2542 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2544 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2545 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2546 in spool file corruption.
2548 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2549 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2550 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2553 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2554 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2555 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2557 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2558 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2560 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2562 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2564 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2566 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2567 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2568 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2570 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2571 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2572 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2573 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2575 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2576 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2578 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2579 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2580 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2581 resolver implementation change.
2583 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2584 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2586 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2588 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2590 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2591 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2593 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2594 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2596 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2597 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2599 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2600 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2601 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2602 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2603 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2605 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2607 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2608 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2609 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2611 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2613 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2614 read-only, out of scope).
2615 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2617 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2618 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2619 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2620 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2622 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2624 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2625 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2626 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2627 real issues in debug logging.
2629 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2630 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2632 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2633 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2634 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2636 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2637 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2638 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2641 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2642 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2644 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2645 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2646 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2647 needs to override this, it can.
2649 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2650 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2651 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2653 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2654 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2655 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2656 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2658 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2664 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2665 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2667 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2669 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2672 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2673 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2675 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2676 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2677 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2679 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2680 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2681 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2682 not safe for signals.
2684 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2685 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2686 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2687 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2690 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2692 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2693 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2694 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2695 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2696 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2698 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2699 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2700 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2701 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2702 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2703 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2705 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2706 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2707 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2708 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2710 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2711 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2712 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2713 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2715 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2716 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2717 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2718 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2719 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2720 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2721 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2722 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2723 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2725 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2726 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2727 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2728 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2730 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2731 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2732 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2733 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2734 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2735 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2736 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2737 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2738 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2739 details in the main documentation.
2741 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2743 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2745 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2746 repository when doing development or release builds.
2748 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2749 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2751 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2752 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2755 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2757 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2758 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2760 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2761 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2763 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2764 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2766 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2767 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2769 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2770 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2772 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2774 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2777 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2778 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2779 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2781 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2783 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2785 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2786 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2792 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2794 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2795 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2797 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2799 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2801 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2804 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2805 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2807 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2808 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2810 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2811 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2813 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2816 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2817 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2819 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2820 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2821 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2822 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2824 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2825 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2831 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2834 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2835 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2836 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2838 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2839 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2841 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2842 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2843 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2845 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2846 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2848 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2849 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2851 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2852 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2854 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2855 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2857 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2858 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2860 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2863 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2864 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2866 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2867 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2869 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2870 SQL string expansion failure details.
2871 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2873 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2874 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2876 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2877 extern declarations in function scope.
2878 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2880 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2881 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2882 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2885 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2886 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2888 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2889 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2891 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2892 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2894 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2895 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2897 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2898 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2901 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2903 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2905 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2906 Patch by Simon Arlott
2908 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2909 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2915 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2916 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2918 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2919 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2921 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2923 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2924 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2925 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2927 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2928 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2929 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2931 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2932 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2933 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2934 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2936 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2937 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2938 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2939 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2941 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2942 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2943 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2946 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2949 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2950 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2951 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2952 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2953 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2959 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2960 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2961 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2963 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2964 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2966 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2968 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2970 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2972 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2974 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2976 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2977 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2978 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2979 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2981 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2982 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2983 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2984 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2985 more caution in buffer sizes.
2987 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2989 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2991 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2993 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2995 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2997 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2999 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3001 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3002 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3003 ignore trailing whitespace.
3005 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3007 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3010 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3011 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3013 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3014 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3015 Notification from John Horne.
3017 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3020 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3021 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3024 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3027 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3028 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3029 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3031 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3032 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3033 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3036 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3037 option (effectively making it always true).
3039 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3040 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3042 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3043 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3045 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3046 run-time user, instead of root.
3048 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3049 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3051 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3052 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3055 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3056 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3057 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3059 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3061 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3067 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3068 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3071 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3072 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3075 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3076 Patch from Alain Williams
3078 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3080 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3081 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3083 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3084 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3086 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3088 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3090 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3091 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3093 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3095 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3097 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3098 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3099 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3101 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3102 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3104 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3105 Patch by Simon Arlott
3107 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3108 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3114 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3116 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3118 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3120 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3122 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3128 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3129 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3131 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3132 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3135 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3136 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3137 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3139 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3140 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3142 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3143 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3144 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3145 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3147 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3148 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3149 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3151 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3153 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3155 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3156 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3158 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3160 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3161 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3162 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3163 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3165 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3166 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3168 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3170 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3172 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3173 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3175 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3176 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3178 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3179 that they are available at delivery time.
3181 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3183 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3184 incoming_port log selectors.
3186 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3187 setting expands to an empty string.
3189 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3190 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3192 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3193 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3195 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3196 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3198 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3199 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3201 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3202 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3204 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3205 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3207 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3209 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3210 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3212 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3213 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3215 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3217 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3218 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3220 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3222 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3224 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3227 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3228 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3230 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3231 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3233 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3234 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3236 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3237 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3239 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3240 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3242 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3243 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3245 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3246 plus update to original patch.
3248 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3250 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3251 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3253 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3255 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3257 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3259 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3261 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3262 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3264 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3265 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3267 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3268 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3270 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3271 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3273 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3275 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3277 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3279 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3285 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3286 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3287 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3289 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3290 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3291 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3292 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3293 build errors in sieve.c.
3295 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3296 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3297 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3299 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3301 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3303 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3305 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3311 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3313 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3314 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3315 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3316 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3317 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3318 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3319 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3320 for iplsearch lookups.
3322 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3323 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3324 previously such lookups could never work.
3326 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3327 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3328 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3330 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3333 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3334 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3335 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3336 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3337 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3338 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3340 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3341 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3343 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3344 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3345 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3346 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3347 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3348 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3350 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3353 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3355 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3356 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3359 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3360 by clients under certain conditions.
3362 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3363 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3365 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3367 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3368 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3370 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3372 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3374 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3376 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3377 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3379 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3381 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3382 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3384 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3386 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3388 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3389 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3390 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3391 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3393 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3394 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3395 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3397 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3398 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3400 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3402 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3404 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3406 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3407 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3408 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3414 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3415 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3418 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3419 issue a MAIL command.
3421 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3423 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3425 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3426 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3427 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3428 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3429 item. This has been fixed.
3431 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3432 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3434 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3435 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3437 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3438 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3439 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3441 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3443 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3444 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3445 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3446 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3447 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3449 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3450 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3451 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3453 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3454 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3455 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3456 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3458 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3460 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3462 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3463 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3464 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3465 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3466 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3468 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3470 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3471 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3472 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3475 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3477 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3479 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3481 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3483 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3485 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3486 no_callout_flush is set.
3488 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3489 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3490 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3493 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3495 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3496 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3497 other ACL rejections are.
3499 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3500 with slight modification.
3502 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3503 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3505 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3506 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3509 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3510 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3512 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3514 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3515 expansion side effects.
3517 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3518 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3519 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3522 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3523 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3524 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3526 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3527 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3528 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3529 were accidentally chopped off.
3531 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3532 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3533 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3534 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3535 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3536 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3537 pipelining has not been advertised.
3539 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3541 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3542 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3543 This has been fixed.
3545 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3546 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3547 reported on Solaris.
3549 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3550 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3551 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3552 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3553 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3554 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3555 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3557 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3560 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3562 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3564 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3565 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3566 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3567 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3568 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3569 criteria to be more general.
3571 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3572 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3573 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3574 host_all_ignored option.
3576 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3577 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3578 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3579 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3580 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3581 is what is supposed to happen).
3583 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3584 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3585 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3586 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3587 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3590 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3591 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3592 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3593 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3594 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3595 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3598 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3600 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3601 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3603 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3604 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3606 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3608 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3610 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3611 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3612 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3613 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3614 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3615 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3616 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3617 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3618 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3619 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3620 least in a lot of common cases.
3622 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3623 advertised in response to EHLO.
3629 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3630 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3632 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3633 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3635 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3636 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3637 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3639 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3640 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3641 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3642 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3643 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3649 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3650 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3653 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3654 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3655 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3657 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3658 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3659 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3660 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3661 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3662 rather than extend the field.
3668 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3669 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3670 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3671 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3674 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3675 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3676 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3678 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3679 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3680 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3682 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3683 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3684 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3687 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3688 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3689 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3690 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3691 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3692 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3693 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3694 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3695 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3696 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3697 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3699 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3702 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3703 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3704 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3705 ignores EPIPE as well.
3707 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3708 (quoted-printable decoding).
3710 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3711 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3713 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3715 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3717 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3719 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3720 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3722 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3725 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3726 miscellaneous code fixes
3728 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3731 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3732 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3733 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3734 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3735 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3736 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3737 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3738 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3740 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3741 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3742 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3743 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3745 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3746 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3747 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3748 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3749 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3750 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3751 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3752 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3753 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3755 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3758 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3759 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3760 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3761 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3762 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3763 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3764 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3765 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3767 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3768 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3771 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3772 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3773 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3774 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3775 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3776 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3777 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3778 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3779 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3780 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3781 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3782 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3783 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3785 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3786 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3787 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3788 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3789 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3790 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3791 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3793 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3794 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3795 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3796 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3797 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3798 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3799 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3800 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3801 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3802 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3804 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3805 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3806 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3807 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3808 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3810 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3811 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3812 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3813 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3814 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3815 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3816 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3818 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3819 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3820 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3821 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3822 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3823 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3826 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3827 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3828 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3831 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3832 if any retry times were supplied.
3834 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3835 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3836 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3838 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3840 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3842 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3843 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3844 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3845 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3846 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3847 before) are ignored.
3849 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3850 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3852 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3853 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3854 committing the later change.]
3856 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3857 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3858 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3859 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3860 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3861 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3862 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3863 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3864 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3866 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3867 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3868 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3869 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3870 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3871 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3872 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3873 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3874 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3876 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3877 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3878 hammering the server.
3880 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3881 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3883 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3885 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3886 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3887 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3889 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3890 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3891 one case where this was not true.
3893 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3894 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3895 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3896 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3899 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3900 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3901 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3902 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3903 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3904 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3905 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3906 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3907 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3910 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3911 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3912 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3913 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3915 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3916 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3918 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3919 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3920 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3922 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3924 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3926 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3928 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3929 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3930 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3931 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3933 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3934 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3936 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3937 be meaningful with "accept".
3939 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3940 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3942 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3943 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3944 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3946 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3947 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3948 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3949 there is data to show.
3950 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3952 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3953 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3954 as well as the number of messages.
3956 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3957 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3958 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3960 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3961 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3962 have a flag are now skipped.
3964 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3965 Added the -emptyok flag.
3967 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3968 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3970 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3971 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3972 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3974 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3977 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3978 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3980 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3982 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3983 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3985 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3987 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3988 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3989 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3990 contravention of the specifications.
3992 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3993 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3994 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3996 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3997 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3998 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4000 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4002 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4003 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4004 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4005 some point in the past.
4007 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4008 transport during callout processing was broken.
4010 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4011 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4013 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4014 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4016 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4017 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4019 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4025 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4026 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4028 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4029 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4030 there is data to show.
4031 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4033 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4034 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4036 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4037 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4039 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4040 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4042 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4043 submissions from trusted users.
4045 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4046 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4048 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4049 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4050 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4051 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4052 there is now a framework to start from.
4054 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4055 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4056 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4058 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4060 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4062 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4064 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4065 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4066 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4068 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4071 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4072 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4073 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4075 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4076 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4077 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4080 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4081 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4082 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4083 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4084 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4086 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4087 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4089 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4091 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4092 operations in malware.c.
4094 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4097 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4098 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4099 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4102 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4103 statements to "add_header".
4105 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4106 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4108 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4109 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4112 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4116 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4117 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4118 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4121 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4122 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4124 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4125 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4127 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4128 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4129 any possible encoding problems.
4131 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4132 but not after initializing Perl.
4134 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4135 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4136 apparently, which is not desirable.
4138 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4141 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4144 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4146 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4147 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4148 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4149 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4151 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4152 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4153 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4155 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4156 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4157 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4160 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4161 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4162 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4163 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4164 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4170 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4171 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4173 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4176 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4177 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4178 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4179 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4180 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4181 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4182 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4183 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4186 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4188 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4189 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4190 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4192 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4193 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4194 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4197 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4198 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4200 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4201 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4202 option (which defaults to 0600).
4204 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4206 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4207 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4208 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4209 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4210 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4211 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4212 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4214 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4220 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4221 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4222 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4223 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4224 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4225 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4228 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4229 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4231 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4233 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4234 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4235 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4236 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4237 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4240 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4241 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4243 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4244 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4245 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4246 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4247 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4249 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4250 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4251 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4252 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4254 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4255 be the same on different OS.
4257 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4260 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4261 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4263 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4266 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4267 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4268 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4269 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4270 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4271 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4274 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4275 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4276 when Exim was called.
4278 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4279 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4281 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4282 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4283 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4284 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4286 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4287 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4288 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4289 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4292 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4293 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4294 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4296 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4297 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4298 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4300 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4303 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4304 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4305 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4306 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4307 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4308 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4309 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4310 values from the SRV records were lost.
4312 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4313 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4314 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4316 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4317 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4318 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4320 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4321 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4322 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4323 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4324 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4325 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4326 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4327 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4328 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4329 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4331 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4332 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4333 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4335 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4336 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4338 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4339 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4340 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4341 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4344 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4345 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4346 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4348 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4349 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4350 PH/23 above applies.
4352 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4353 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4354 (for which there is an explicit test).
4356 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4358 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4359 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4360 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4361 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4362 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4364 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4365 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4366 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4367 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4369 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4370 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4371 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4373 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4375 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4377 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4378 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4379 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4381 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4382 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4383 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4384 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4385 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4387 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4388 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4389 the message gets confusing).
4391 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4392 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4393 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4394 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4396 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4397 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4398 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4399 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4402 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4403 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4404 the different processes.
4406 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4408 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4410 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4411 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4413 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4414 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4416 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4417 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4418 messages matching specified criteria.
4420 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4422 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4423 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4425 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4426 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4427 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4428 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4429 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4430 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4431 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4432 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4433 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4434 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4436 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4437 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4438 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4440 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4442 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4443 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4444 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4445 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4446 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4447 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4448 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4451 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4452 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4454 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4456 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4458 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4460 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4461 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4462 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4463 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4464 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4465 size of the count of files.
4467 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4469 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4472 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4473 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4474 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4475 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4477 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4478 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4479 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4481 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4482 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4483 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4484 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4485 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4487 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4488 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4490 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4491 will now be deprecated.
4493 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4495 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4496 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4497 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4499 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4500 with very large, slow to parse queues
4502 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4504 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4506 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4507 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4508 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4511 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4512 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4513 Sieve code now uses this.
4515 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4516 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4518 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4519 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4521 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4523 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4524 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4525 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4526 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4527 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4529 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4530 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4531 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4532 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4534 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4536 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4538 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4539 is preferred over IPv4.
4541 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4542 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4543 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4544 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4545 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4546 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4547 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4549 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4550 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4551 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4553 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4555 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4556 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4557 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4558 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4559 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4560 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4561 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4562 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4563 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4564 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4565 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4567 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4568 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4569 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4575 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4577 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4578 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4580 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4581 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4582 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4584 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4586 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4589 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4592 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4593 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4594 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4597 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4598 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4600 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4601 inside the third argument.
4603 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4604 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4607 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4608 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4610 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4611 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4613 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4615 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4616 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4619 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4621 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4622 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4623 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4624 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4625 identical. For example:
4627 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4629 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4630 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4631 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4633 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4634 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4635 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4636 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4638 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4639 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4640 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4643 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4645 o fixes some comments
4646 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4647 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4648 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4649 and documents the missing references header update
4653 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4654 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4657 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4658 Electronic Mail") by including:
4660 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4662 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4663 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4664 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4665 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4666 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4668 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4670 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4672 The auto-replied keyword:
4674 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4675 message by an automatic process,
4677 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4679 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4680 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4682 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4683 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4686 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4687 to the default Received: header definition.
4689 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4691 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4692 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4693 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4695 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4696 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4697 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4699 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4700 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4701 and treats the condition as false.
4703 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4705 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4706 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4707 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4708 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4709 not changing the active code.
4711 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4712 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4714 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4715 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4717 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4720 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4721 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4722 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4723 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4724 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4725 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4726 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4727 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4728 the text comparison.
4730 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4731 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4732 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4733 The same fix has been applied.
4739 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4740 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4743 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4744 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4746 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4748 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4749 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4750 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4751 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4752 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4754 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4755 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4756 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4757 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4760 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4768 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4769 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4771 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4773 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4775 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4776 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4777 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4779 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4780 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4781 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4783 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4784 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4787 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4788 ${stat: expansion item.
4790 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4791 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4793 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4794 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4797 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4799 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4802 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4803 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4805 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4807 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4808 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4809 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4810 the end of the subprocess.
4812 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4813 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4814 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4815 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4816 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4818 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4820 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4822 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4823 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4825 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4827 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4829 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4830 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4833 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4835 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4836 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4837 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4839 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4840 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4842 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4843 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4845 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4846 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4848 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4849 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4851 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4852 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4853 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4854 contributed by a Radius user.
4856 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4857 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4859 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4860 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4862 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4865 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4866 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4869 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4870 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4871 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4872 header lines when this was not necessary.
4874 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4876 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4877 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4878 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4881 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4884 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4885 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4886 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4887 return code was incorrect.
4889 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4891 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4893 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4895 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4897 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4898 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4899 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4900 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4901 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4904 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4906 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4907 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4908 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4909 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4910 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4911 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4912 which is clearly wrong.
4914 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4916 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4917 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4918 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4921 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4922 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4924 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4926 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4927 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4929 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4930 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4932 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4933 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4935 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4936 recipients, not senders.
4938 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4939 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4941 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4943 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4945 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4946 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4947 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4948 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4950 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4952 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4953 clock is set back in time.
4955 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4956 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4958 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4959 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4961 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4962 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4965 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4966 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4969 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4972 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4974 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4975 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4976 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4978 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4979 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4980 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4981 helo verification defer as a failure.
4983 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4984 actual error message.
4990 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4992 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4993 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4994 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4995 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4997 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4999 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5000 can still be requested.
5002 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5003 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5004 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5005 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5007 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5008 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5009 circumstances, but probably never did.
5011 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5012 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5013 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5016 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5018 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5019 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5021 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5023 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5025 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5026 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5027 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5028 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5029 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5030 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5032 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5033 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5034 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5035 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5036 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5037 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5039 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5040 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5042 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5043 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5045 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5046 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5048 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5050 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5052 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5054 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5056 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5058 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5060 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5062 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5063 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5064 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5066 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5067 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5068 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5069 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5071 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5072 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5073 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5075 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5076 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5077 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5078 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5080 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5081 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5084 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5085 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5086 should work with maildirs and everything.
5088 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5089 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5091 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5094 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5095 function for BDB 4.3.
5097 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5099 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5100 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5103 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5104 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5105 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5106 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5107 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5108 formatting function string_vformat().
5110 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5111 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5112 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5113 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5114 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5115 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5116 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5117 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5119 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5120 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5123 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5124 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5126 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5127 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5128 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5129 test. It is now used for both.
5131 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5132 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5133 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5134 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5135 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5136 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5138 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5139 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5140 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5143 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5144 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5145 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5147 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5148 experimental DomainKeys support:
5150 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5151 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5152 the control was given.
5154 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5156 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5158 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5160 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5161 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5162 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5165 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5166 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5167 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5168 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5169 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5170 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5173 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5174 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5175 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5176 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5177 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5178 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5180 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5181 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5182 do -d+all out of habit.
5184 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5185 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5188 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5189 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5190 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5191 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5192 record types that Exim uses.
5194 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5195 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5196 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5197 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5198 non-existent file that was broken.
5200 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5201 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5203 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5204 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5205 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5207 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5209 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5210 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5211 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5212 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5213 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5216 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5217 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5218 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5219 at a slight CPU cost.
5221 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5222 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5224 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5227 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5229 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5230 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5236 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5237 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5239 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5241 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5243 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5244 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5246 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5247 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5248 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5249 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5250 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5251 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5254 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5255 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5256 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5257 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5260 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5261 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5262 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5263 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5264 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5265 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5266 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5269 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5270 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5272 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5273 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5274 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5275 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5276 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5277 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5279 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5280 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5281 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5282 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5284 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5287 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5288 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5290 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5291 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5292 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5293 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5296 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5298 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5299 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5301 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5302 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5303 to what was transported.)
5305 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5307 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5308 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5309 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5310 spamd_address settings.
5312 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5313 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5314 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5315 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5316 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5318 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5320 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5321 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5322 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5323 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5324 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5326 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5327 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5329 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5330 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5331 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5332 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5333 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5334 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5335 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5338 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5339 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5340 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5341 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5342 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5343 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5344 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5347 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5349 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5350 driver and ACL definitions.
5352 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5353 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5355 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5356 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5357 understands it better than I do:
5359 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5360 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5362 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5363 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5364 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5365 => three warnings about OTP not working
5366 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5368 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5369 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5370 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5371 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5373 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5374 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5376 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5377 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5378 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5380 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5381 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5384 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5385 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5388 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5389 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5390 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5392 warn !verify = sender
5393 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5395 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5396 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5398 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5400 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5401 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5403 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5404 nomenclature these days.)
5406 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5407 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5409 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5410 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5411 . First host does not offer TLS;
5412 . First host accepts first address;
5413 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5414 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5415 . Second host accepts second address.
5416 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5417 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5420 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5421 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5422 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5423 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5424 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5426 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5427 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5429 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5430 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5432 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5433 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5434 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5436 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5437 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5440 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5442 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5443 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5444 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5445 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5446 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5447 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5448 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5450 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5451 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5452 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5453 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5454 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5456 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5457 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5460 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5461 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5462 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5463 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5464 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5465 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5467 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5469 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5470 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5471 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5472 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5473 printable escape sequences.
5475 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5476 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5479 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5480 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5483 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5484 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5485 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5486 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5487 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5489 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5490 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5491 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5493 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5495 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5496 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5499 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5500 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5501 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5502 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5503 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5504 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5505 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5506 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5507 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5510 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5511 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5512 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5513 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5517 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5518 ----------------------------------------
5520 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5521 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5522 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5523 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5524 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5525 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5528 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5529 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5530 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5531 historical information.
5537 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5539 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5540 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5542 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5543 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5546 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5547 filter fails to execute.
5549 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5550 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5551 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5552 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5553 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5555 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5557 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5558 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5559 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5560 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5562 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5563 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5564 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5565 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5566 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5568 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5570 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5572 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5573 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5574 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5575 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5577 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5578 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5579 sender verification.
5581 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5582 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5584 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5586 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5589 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5590 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5592 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5593 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5595 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5596 information about exactly what failed.
5598 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5600 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5601 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5602 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5604 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5605 It is now set to "smtps".
5607 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5608 ignore_target_hosts.
5610 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5611 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5612 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5613 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5616 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5617 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5618 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5620 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5621 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5622 wake it up if nothing else does.
5624 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5625 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5626 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5629 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5630 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5632 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5634 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5635 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5636 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5637 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5638 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5639 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5640 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5641 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5643 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5644 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5645 than one IP address.
5647 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5648 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5649 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5650 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5652 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5653 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5654 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5655 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5656 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5659 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5660 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5661 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5662 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5664 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5665 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5668 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5669 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5670 $sender_host_address.
5672 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5673 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5674 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5675 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5676 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5679 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5681 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5682 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5684 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5685 just the host names, not the priorities.
5687 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5688 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5689 controlled by a keyword.
5691 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5692 multiple records are returned.
5694 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5695 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5698 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5700 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5701 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5703 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5704 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5705 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5707 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5709 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5711 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5713 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5714 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5715 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5716 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5717 because the tests only now provoked it.
5719 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5720 (this can affect the format of dates).
5722 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5723 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5724 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5725 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5727 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5729 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5730 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5731 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5732 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5734 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5735 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5736 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5738 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5741 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5742 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5743 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5744 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5745 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5746 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5749 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5750 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5751 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5754 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5755 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5756 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5758 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5759 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5760 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5761 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5762 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5763 so I produce this patch..."
5765 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5766 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5769 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5770 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5771 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5772 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5775 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5777 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5778 long debug lines gets shown.
5780 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5781 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5783 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5785 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5786 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5787 of $primary_hostname.
5789 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5790 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5791 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5792 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5793 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5794 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5795 by change 4.50/55 above.
5797 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5798 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5799 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5800 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5801 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5802 running as the user.
5805 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5806 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5807 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5810 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5811 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5813 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5814 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5815 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5816 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5817 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5819 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5820 This has been fixed.
5822 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5823 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5824 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5825 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5828 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5830 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5831 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5832 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5833 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5835 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5836 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5838 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5839 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5840 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5842 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5843 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5844 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5847 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5848 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5849 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5851 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5852 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5853 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5854 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5856 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5857 during host lookups.
5859 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5860 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5862 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5864 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5865 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5866 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5867 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5868 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5871 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5872 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5874 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5875 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5876 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5878 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5880 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5881 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5882 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5883 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5884 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5885 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5888 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5889 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5890 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5891 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5892 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5894 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5897 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5899 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5900 "vacation" handling.
5902 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5903 OS variants using glibc.
5905 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5908 ----------------------------------------------------
5909 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5910 ----------------------------------------------------
5916 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5917 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5920 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5921 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5924 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5925 filter fails to execute.
5927 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5928 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5929 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5930 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5931 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5933 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5934 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5935 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5936 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5938 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5939 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5940 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5941 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5942 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5944 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5946 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5947 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5948 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5949 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5951 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5952 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5953 sender verification.
5955 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5956 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5958 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5959 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5961 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5962 ignore_target_hosts.
5964 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5965 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5966 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5967 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5970 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5971 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5972 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5974 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5975 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5976 wake it up if nothing else does.
5978 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5979 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5980 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5983 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5984 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5986 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5988 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5989 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5992 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5993 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5996 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5997 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5998 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5999 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6000 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6003 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6004 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6007 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6008 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6009 $sender_host_address.
6011 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6013 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6014 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6015 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6017 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6020 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6021 (this can affect the format of dates).
6023 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6024 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6025 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6026 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6028 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6029 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6030 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6032 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6033 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6034 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6035 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6037 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6038 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6039 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6041 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6044 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6045 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6046 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6047 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6048 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6049 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6052 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6053 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6054 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6055 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6058 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6059 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6060 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6061 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6062 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6063 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6064 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6066 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6067 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6068 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6069 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6070 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6071 running as the user.
6074 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6075 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6076 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6079 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6080 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6081 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6082 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6083 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6085 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6086 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6087 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6088 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6091 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6092 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6093 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6094 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6095 because the tests only now provoked it.
6101 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6102 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6103 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6104 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6105 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6106 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6107 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6109 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6110 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6113 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6115 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6117 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6118 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6121 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6122 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6123 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6124 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6125 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6127 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6128 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6130 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6132 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6134 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6137 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6138 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6140 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6141 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6142 affecting debugging statements).
6144 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6146 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6147 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6148 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6149 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6150 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6151 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6152 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6153 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6154 after the received time, and all would be well.
6156 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6157 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6158 condition in an expansion string.
6160 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6162 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6163 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6164 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6165 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6166 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6167 job under whatever limits there are.
6169 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6171 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6174 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6175 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6176 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6177 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6180 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6181 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6182 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6183 binary data in such strings.
6185 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6187 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6188 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6189 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6190 failure, which is pointless.
6192 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6194 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6196 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6197 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6198 Sender: header lines.
6200 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6201 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6202 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6204 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6205 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6206 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6207 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6208 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6211 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6212 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6213 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6214 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6215 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6217 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6218 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6219 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6222 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6223 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6225 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6226 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6228 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6230 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6232 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6234 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6237 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6239 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6241 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6242 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6243 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6244 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6246 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6247 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6253 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6254 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6255 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6257 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6258 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6259 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6260 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6261 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6262 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6264 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6265 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6266 verification failure".
6268 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6269 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6270 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6271 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6273 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6274 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6275 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6276 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6277 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6278 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6279 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6280 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6281 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6282 treated as a timeout.
6284 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6285 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6286 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6287 not set for Exim filters).
6289 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6290 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6291 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6293 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6295 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6296 try to make them clearer.
6298 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6299 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6301 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6303 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6305 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6306 only the Cygwin environment.
6308 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6309 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6310 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6311 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6312 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6314 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6315 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6316 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6317 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6318 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6319 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6320 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6322 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6323 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6325 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6327 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6328 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6329 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6331 To: susanne@some.where
6333 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6334 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6335 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6336 of addresses in From: header lines).
6338 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6339 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6340 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6342 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6343 treated as non-personal.
6345 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6346 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6348 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6350 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6352 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6353 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6354 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6356 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6357 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6359 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6360 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6361 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6362 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6363 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6364 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6366 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6367 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6368 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6369 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6370 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6371 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6372 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6373 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6375 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6377 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6378 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6380 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6381 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6382 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6384 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6385 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6387 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6388 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6389 rather than long int.
6391 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6393 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6399 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6400 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6401 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6402 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6403 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6404 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6410 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6411 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6413 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6414 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6415 socklen_t is defined.
6417 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6420 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6423 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6424 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6425 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6426 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6427 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6429 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6430 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6431 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6432 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6434 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6435 of flapping under certain conditions.
6437 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6438 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6439 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6441 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6443 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6445 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6446 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6447 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6448 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6450 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6451 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6452 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6453 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6454 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6455 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6456 preserved with the message after it was received.
6458 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6459 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6460 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6461 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6462 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6463 test suite worked just fine.
6465 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6466 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6467 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6469 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6470 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6473 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6474 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6475 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6476 does not fully solve it.
6478 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6479 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6480 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6481 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6482 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6484 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6485 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6486 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6488 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6489 string, for example:
6491 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6493 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6494 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6495 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6496 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6497 the routers could not see them.
6499 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6500 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6502 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6503 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6506 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6507 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6508 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6509 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6510 that needed quoting.
6512 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6513 was not being matched caselessly.
6515 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6518 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6519 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6520 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6521 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6522 when use_sender is false.
6524 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6526 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6528 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6530 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6531 the configuration file.
6533 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6534 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6536 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6538 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6539 bytes in the message body.
6541 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6542 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6545 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6547 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6549 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6550 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6551 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6552 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6559 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6560 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6562 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6563 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6564 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6565 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6566 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6568 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6569 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6571 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6572 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6573 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6575 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6576 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6577 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6579 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6582 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6583 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6584 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6585 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6586 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6587 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6588 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6594 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6595 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6596 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6597 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6598 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6599 default (and expected) setting.
6601 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6602 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6603 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6604 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6606 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6607 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6609 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6612 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6613 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6614 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6615 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6616 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6617 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6619 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6620 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6621 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6623 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6624 part (NOT match_host).
6626 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6628 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6629 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6630 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6631 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6632 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6633 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6634 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6635 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6636 the same named file.
6638 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6639 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6642 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6643 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6644 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6645 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6648 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6649 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6650 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6652 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6654 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6656 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6658 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6659 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6661 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6662 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6663 before starting the TLS session.
6665 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6667 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6668 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6670 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6671 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6672 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6673 colon in the middle).
6679 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6680 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6681 multiple configurations are in use.
6683 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6684 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6685 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6686 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6687 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6688 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6690 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6691 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6693 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6694 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6695 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6697 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6698 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6701 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6702 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6704 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6706 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6707 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6709 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6717 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6718 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6719 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6720 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6721 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6723 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6726 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6727 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6728 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6729 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6730 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6731 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6733 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6734 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6735 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6736 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6737 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6738 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6739 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6742 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6743 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6744 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6745 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6746 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6748 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6750 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6751 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6752 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6754 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6756 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6757 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6758 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6761 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6762 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6764 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6765 Three changes have been made:
6767 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6768 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6769 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6770 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6771 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6773 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6776 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6777 the modified behaviour.
6783 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6786 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6787 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6789 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6790 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6791 try to track down a specific problem.
6793 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6794 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6795 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6797 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6800 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6801 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6802 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6803 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6804 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6805 some earlier ones do not.
6807 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6809 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6810 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6811 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6812 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6813 address literals are enabled, of course).
6815 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6817 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6818 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6819 by a command such as
6823 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6825 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6827 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6828 remained set. It is now erased.
6830 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6831 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6833 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6834 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6835 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6836 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6837 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6838 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6839 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6840 appropriate error code.
6842 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6843 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6844 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6845 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6846 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6847 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6849 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6850 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6851 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6853 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6854 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6855 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6856 terminate the header.
6858 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6859 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6860 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6862 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6863 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6864 (4.30/29). In particular:
6866 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6869 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6870 to write a maildirsize file.
6872 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6873 the transport, the new value overrides.
6875 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6878 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6879 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6880 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6883 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6884 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6885 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6888 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6889 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6890 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6892 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6893 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6896 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6897 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6898 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6900 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6902 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6904 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6906 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6907 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6910 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6911 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6912 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6913 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6914 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6915 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6916 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6919 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6920 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6921 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6922 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6923 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6926 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6927 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6928 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6929 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6930 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6931 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6932 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6933 cached value only when the same options are set.
6935 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6937 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6938 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6939 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6940 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6941 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6943 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6944 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6945 it is clearly obsolete.
6947 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6950 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6951 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6952 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6955 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6956 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6957 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6958 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6959 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6961 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6962 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6963 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6964 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6966 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6968 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6970 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6971 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6974 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6975 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6976 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6977 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6978 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6979 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6982 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6983 with the -f command-line option.
6985 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6986 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6987 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6988 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6989 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6990 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6992 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6993 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6996 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6997 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6998 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6999 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7000 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7001 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7002 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7003 buffer is too small.
7005 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7006 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7008 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7009 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7010 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7011 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7012 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7013 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7014 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7015 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7016 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7018 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7019 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7020 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7022 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7023 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7026 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7027 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7028 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7029 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7030 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7032 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7033 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7034 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7035 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7038 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7040 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7042 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7043 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7045 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7046 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7047 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7049 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7050 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7051 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7052 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7053 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7055 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7056 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7057 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7058 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7059 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7060 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7061 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7063 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7064 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7065 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7066 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7067 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7068 the test of how many are available.
7070 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7071 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7072 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7073 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7074 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7075 new message is started.
7077 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7078 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7080 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7081 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7083 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7084 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7085 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7088 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7089 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7090 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7091 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7092 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7093 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7094 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7096 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7097 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7098 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7099 interpreted as octal.
7101 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7104 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7105 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7106 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7107 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7108 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7109 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7111 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7112 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7113 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7114 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7116 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7117 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7118 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7119 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7121 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7122 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7125 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7126 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7128 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7130 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7131 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7132 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7133 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7135 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7136 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7137 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7138 supplied", which is not helpful.
7140 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7141 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7142 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7144 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7145 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7146 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7147 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7148 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7149 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7150 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7151 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7153 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7154 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7155 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7156 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7157 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7159 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7160 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7161 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7162 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7163 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7164 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7166 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7167 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7168 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7170 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7172 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7173 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7174 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7177 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7179 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7180 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7181 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7182 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7183 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7184 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7185 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7186 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7188 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7189 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7190 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7191 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7192 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7194 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7197 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7198 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7199 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7200 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7201 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7202 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7203 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7204 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7205 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7211 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7212 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7213 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7215 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7218 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7219 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7220 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7222 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7223 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7224 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7225 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7226 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7227 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7229 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7230 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7231 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7232 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7233 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7234 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7235 the Exim test suite.
7237 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7238 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7239 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7240 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7242 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7243 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7244 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7245 specify it in this variable.
7247 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7248 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7249 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7250 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7252 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7253 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7254 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7255 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7257 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7258 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7259 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7260 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7261 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7263 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7265 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7268 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7269 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7270 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7271 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7272 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7274 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7275 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7277 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7278 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7279 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7280 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7281 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7283 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7284 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7286 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7287 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7288 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7290 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7291 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7293 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7294 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7296 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7297 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7298 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7300 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7301 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7303 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7304 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7305 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7306 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7308 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7310 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7311 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7312 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7313 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7315 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7317 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7318 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7320 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7322 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7323 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7324 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7325 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7326 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7327 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7329 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7331 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7332 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7335 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7337 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7338 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7340 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7341 550 Sender verify failed
7343 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7344 the final line of the response.
7346 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7347 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7348 all other user lookups.
7350 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7353 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7354 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7355 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7356 result into an int without checking.
7358 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7359 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7360 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7362 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7363 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7364 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7365 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7367 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7370 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7371 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7373 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7374 to the empty sender.
7376 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7377 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7378 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7379 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7380 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7381 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7382 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7385 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7386 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7387 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7388 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7391 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7392 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7394 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7397 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7398 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7400 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7402 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7403 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7406 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7407 as soon as it is encountered.
7409 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7411 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7414 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7415 recognizes a tab character.
7417 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7418 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7419 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7420 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7422 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7424 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7427 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7429 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7431 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7432 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7435 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7436 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7437 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7438 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7439 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7441 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7442 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7444 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7445 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7446 list (.included file names were always shown).
7448 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7449 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7450 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7453 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7454 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7456 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7458 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7460 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7462 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7463 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7464 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7465 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7466 failures to open the logs.
7468 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7469 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7470 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7471 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7472 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7473 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7474 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7480 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7481 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7482 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7485 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7486 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7487 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7489 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7490 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7491 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7493 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7494 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7495 causing some misleading effects.
7497 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7498 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7499 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7501 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7502 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7503 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7504 queue-runner function directly.
7510 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7513 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7514 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7515 was always written to the default place.
7517 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7518 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7519 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7521 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7523 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7525 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7526 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7527 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7529 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7530 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7533 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7534 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7535 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7537 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7538 command line option is disabled.
7540 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7541 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7543 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7545 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7547 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7548 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7550 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7552 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7553 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7554 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7555 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7556 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7557 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7559 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7560 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7563 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7564 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7566 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7567 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7569 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7570 received was valid base64.
7572 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7573 name of the variable that was being set.
7575 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7577 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7578 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7579 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7580 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7581 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7582 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7584 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7586 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7587 nor realm was specified.
7589 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7590 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7591 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7592 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7594 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7595 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7596 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7598 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7599 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7600 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7602 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7603 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7604 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7605 some systems use these upper case variants.
7607 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7608 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7609 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7610 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7612 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7614 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7615 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7617 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7618 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7621 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7623 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7624 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7625 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7626 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7628 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7631 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7632 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7633 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7635 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7636 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7638 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7639 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7640 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7641 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7643 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7644 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7645 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7647 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7649 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7650 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7651 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7652 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7655 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7656 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7657 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7659 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7661 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7662 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7664 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7665 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7667 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7668 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7669 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7670 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7671 when emails are that large.
7678 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7679 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7681 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7682 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7683 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7685 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7686 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7687 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7689 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7690 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7691 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7692 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7693 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7695 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7696 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7697 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7698 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7699 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7702 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7703 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7704 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7705 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7706 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7707 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7708 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7709 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7710 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7711 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7712 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7713 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7714 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7715 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7717 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7718 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7721 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7722 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7723 error should be diagnosed.
7725 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7726 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7727 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7728 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7729 appeared instead of "NULL".
7731 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7732 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7733 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7734 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7735 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7736 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7739 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7740 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7741 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7747 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7748 or receiver verification errors.
7750 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7753 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7754 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7755 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7756 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7758 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7759 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7760 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7761 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7762 shouldn't happen again.
7764 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7765 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7766 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7768 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7769 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7771 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7773 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7774 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7776 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7777 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7780 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7781 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7782 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7784 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7785 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7786 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7787 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7789 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7790 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7791 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7792 to define what should happen).
7794 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7795 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7796 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7798 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7800 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7802 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7803 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7805 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7806 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7807 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7808 structure in all cases.
7810 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7811 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7812 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7813 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7815 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7816 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7819 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7820 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7822 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7823 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7825 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7826 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7827 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7829 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7830 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7831 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7833 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7834 the book and for uniformity.
7836 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7838 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7839 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7840 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7841 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7842 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7843 non-existent command as the problem.
7845 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7846 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7847 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7849 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7851 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7852 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7853 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7855 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7856 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7857 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7858 timestamps using strftime().
7860 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7861 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7863 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7864 transport-time rewrites.
7866 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7867 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7868 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7869 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7871 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7872 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7874 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7875 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7876 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7877 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7880 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7881 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7882 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7883 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7884 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7885 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7886 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7888 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7889 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7890 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7891 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7892 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7894 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7895 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7896 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7897 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7898 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7899 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7900 remaining text gets split now.
7902 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7903 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7904 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7905 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7907 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7908 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7909 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7910 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7913 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7914 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7915 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7916 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7917 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7918 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7919 passed through if needed.
7921 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7922 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7923 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7924 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7925 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7926 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7928 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7929 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7930 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7931 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7932 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7934 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7935 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7936 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7937 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7938 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7940 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7941 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7944 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7945 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7946 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7947 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7948 mayhem of various kinds.
7950 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7951 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7952 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7953 the right test for positive values.
7955 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7956 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7957 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7958 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7959 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7960 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7961 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7962 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7963 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7964 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7967 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7970 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7971 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7974 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7975 the existing equality matching.
7977 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7978 dealing with inode numbers.
7980 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7981 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7982 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7984 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7985 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7986 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7987 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7990 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7991 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7992 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7993 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7994 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7995 relay addresses has also been removed.
7997 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7999 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8000 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8001 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8003 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8004 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8005 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8006 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8007 processing applies to CR:
8009 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8010 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8012 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8013 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8014 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8015 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8017 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8018 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8019 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8021 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8022 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8023 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8024 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8025 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8026 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8029 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8032 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8033 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8034 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8035 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8038 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8040 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8042 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8044 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8045 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8046 not considered personal.
8048 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8050 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8052 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8054 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8055 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8056 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8057 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8058 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8059 header lines, and spool format errors.
8061 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8062 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8063 for more flexibility.
8065 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8066 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8067 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8069 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8072 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8073 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8074 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8075 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8076 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8077 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8078 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8079 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8080 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8082 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8083 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8084 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8085 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8086 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8087 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8088 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8090 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8091 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8092 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8094 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8095 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8096 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8097 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8098 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8099 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8100 instead of killing the process with assert().
8102 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8103 than Unicode encoding.
8105 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8106 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8107 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8108 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8110 77. Added process_log_path.
8112 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8113 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8115 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8116 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8118 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8119 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8120 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8122 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8123 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8124 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8125 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8126 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8129 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8130 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8133 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8134 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8135 they will be used during message reception.
8141 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.