1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
285 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
286 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
287 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
289 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
291 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
292 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
295 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
296 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
297 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
299 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
301 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
303 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
304 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
305 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
307 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
308 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
309 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
311 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
312 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
314 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
315 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
318 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
319 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
320 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
321 should both provide the file and set the option.
322 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
324 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
325 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
327 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
328 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
329 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
330 Authentication-Results: header.
332 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
333 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
334 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
335 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
337 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
338 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
339 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
340 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
341 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
342 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
343 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
345 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
346 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
347 copies while it is still usable.
349 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
350 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
351 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
353 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
354 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
356 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
357 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
358 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
359 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
361 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
362 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
363 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
366 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
367 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
368 - the pipe transport command
369 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
370 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
372 - paths used by single-key lookups
373 Previously this was permitted.
375 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
376 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
377 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
378 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
380 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
381 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
382 support larger malloc requests.
384 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
385 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
386 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
387 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
389 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
390 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
391 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
392 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
395 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
396 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
397 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
398 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
399 data being length-specified.
401 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
402 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
403 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
404 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
406 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
407 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
408 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
409 not being properly tracked.
411 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
412 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
413 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
414 minute could be seen.
416 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
417 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
418 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
420 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
421 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
423 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
424 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
427 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
429 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
430 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
432 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
433 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
434 filesystem as sufficient validation.
436 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
437 argument is supplied.
439 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
440 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
441 access under Exim's current working directory.
443 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
444 Previously no event was raised.
446 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
447 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
448 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
451 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
452 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
453 the size of the signature hash.
455 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
456 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
458 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
459 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
460 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
461 dropped between messages.
463 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
464 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
465 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
466 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
468 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
469 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
470 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
471 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
472 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
473 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
474 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
475 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
476 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
478 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
479 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
480 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
482 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
483 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
490 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
491 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
493 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
494 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
497 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
500 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
502 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
504 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
505 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
507 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
508 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
509 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
510 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
511 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
512 suitably configured).
514 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
515 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
517 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
518 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
521 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
522 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
524 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
525 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
526 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
527 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
530 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
531 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
532 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
534 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
537 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
538 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
540 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
541 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
542 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
543 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
546 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
547 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
548 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
549 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
552 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
553 shared (NFS) environment.
555 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
556 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
559 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
560 on some platforms for bit 31.
562 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
563 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
564 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
565 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
566 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
567 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
568 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
569 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
571 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
573 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
574 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
576 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
577 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
580 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
581 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
584 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
585 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
586 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
589 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
590 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
591 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
593 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
594 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
595 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
596 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
597 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
599 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
602 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
603 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
604 be requested on all coneections.
606 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
607 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
609 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
611 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
612 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
613 one for these; the option was ignored.
615 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
616 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
617 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
618 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
620 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
621 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
622 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
625 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
626 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
627 error ignored was made.
629 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
631 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
632 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
633 values, to catch one form of exploit.
635 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
636 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
637 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
639 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
640 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
643 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
644 them in our smtp response.
646 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
647 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
648 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
649 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
650 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
652 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
653 link count into consideration.
655 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
656 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
658 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
659 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
660 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
663 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
665 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
667 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
669 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
670 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
671 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
672 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
674 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
676 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
677 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
680 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
681 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
682 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
684 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
685 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
686 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
688 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
689 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
690 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
691 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
692 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
693 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
694 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
695 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
697 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
698 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
699 resulted in an indefinite loop.
701 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
702 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
703 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
709 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
710 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
712 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
713 non-signal-safe functions being used.
715 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
716 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
717 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
719 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
720 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
721 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
723 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
724 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
725 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
726 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
727 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
730 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
731 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
733 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
734 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
735 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
736 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
737 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
738 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
739 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
741 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
742 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
744 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
747 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
748 Previously this would segfault.
750 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
753 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
754 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
755 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
756 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
757 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
758 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
760 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
762 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
763 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
764 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
765 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
767 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
769 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
770 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
771 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
772 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
774 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
776 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
778 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
779 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
780 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
782 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
783 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
784 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
786 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
788 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
789 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
790 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
791 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
793 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
794 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
795 promised '?' replacement.
797 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
799 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
800 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
801 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
802 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
803 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
805 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
806 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
807 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
809 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
810 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
811 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
813 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
814 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
815 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
817 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
818 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
819 hope that is portable enough.
821 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
822 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
823 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
824 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
826 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
827 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
828 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
830 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
831 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
832 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
833 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
835 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
836 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
838 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
839 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
840 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
841 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
843 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
844 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
845 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
847 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
848 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
849 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
850 the previous G, M, k.
852 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
853 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
856 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
857 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
858 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
859 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
861 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
862 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
864 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
865 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
866 off past the nul-terimation.
868 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
869 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
870 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
871 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
872 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
874 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
876 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
877 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
878 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
881 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
882 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
884 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
885 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
886 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
888 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
889 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
890 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
892 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
893 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
899 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
900 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
901 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
902 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
903 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
904 be defined in redis_servers.
906 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
907 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
909 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
910 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
911 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
912 extant use locations.
914 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
915 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
917 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
918 Previously only the last row was returned.
920 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
921 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
922 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
923 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
926 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
927 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
928 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
929 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
930 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
931 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
932 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
933 Main pool for expansions.
934 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
935 active in the testsuite.
936 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
938 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
939 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
940 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
941 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
944 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
945 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
948 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
949 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
950 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
952 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
953 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
954 ClamAV interface method is removed.
956 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
957 rows affected is given instead).
959 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
960 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
962 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
963 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
964 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
965 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
966 for all multi-message initiating connections.
968 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
969 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
970 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
972 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
973 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
974 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
975 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
978 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
979 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
980 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
983 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
985 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
986 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
988 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
989 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
990 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
992 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
993 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
994 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
997 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
998 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1000 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1001 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1002 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1004 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1005 for the build is renamed.
1007 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1008 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1009 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1011 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1012 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1013 result replacing the original.
1015 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1016 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1017 and the resources needed to be freed.
1019 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1021 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1024 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1025 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1026 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1027 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1029 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1030 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1032 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1033 newer versions of the scanner.
1035 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1036 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1037 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1038 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1039 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1040 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1041 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1043 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1044 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1045 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1046 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1047 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1048 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1049 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1050 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1051 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1052 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1054 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1055 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1057 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1059 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1060 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1062 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1063 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1065 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1066 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1067 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1069 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1070 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1071 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1072 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1074 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1075 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1078 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1079 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1081 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1082 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1083 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1084 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1085 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1087 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1088 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1091 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1092 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1094 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1097 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1098 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1099 "bare" representation.
1101 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1102 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1103 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1104 corrupted the output.
1110 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1111 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1112 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1113 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1115 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1116 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1118 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1119 This permits better logging.
1121 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1122 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1123 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1124 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1125 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1126 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1128 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1129 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1132 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1133 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1134 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1136 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1137 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1139 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1140 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1141 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1142 client, there is no benefit for these.
1143 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1144 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1145 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1148 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1149 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1151 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1152 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1153 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1155 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1156 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1158 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1159 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1160 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1161 signature and again for transmission.
1163 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1164 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1165 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1167 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1168 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1169 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1170 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1171 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1172 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1173 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1175 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1176 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1177 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1178 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1180 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1181 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1182 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1183 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1184 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1185 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1188 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1189 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1190 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1191 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1194 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1195 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1196 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1197 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1200 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1201 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1204 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1205 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1206 banner-time rejection.
1208 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1211 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1212 is the name of a transport.
1215 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1217 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1218 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1220 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1221 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1222 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1225 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1226 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1227 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1228 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1230 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1231 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1232 initial verify call returned a defer.
1234 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1235 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1237 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1238 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1240 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1241 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1243 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1244 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1246 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1247 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1250 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1251 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1253 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1254 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1255 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1257 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1258 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1259 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1260 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1262 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1263 and confused the parent.
1265 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1266 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1268 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1271 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1272 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1273 out-of-order delivery.
1275 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1276 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1277 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1280 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1281 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1284 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1285 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1286 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1288 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1289 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1290 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1291 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1292 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1293 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1295 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1296 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1297 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1299 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1300 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1301 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1303 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1304 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1305 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1306 though a different problem.
1312 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1313 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1315 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1317 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1318 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1320 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1321 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1323 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1324 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1325 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1326 before acknowledging the chunk.
1328 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1329 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1330 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1332 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1333 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1334 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1337 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1338 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1339 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1341 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1342 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1344 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1345 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1346 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1347 body hash calculated value.
1349 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1350 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1351 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1353 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1355 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1356 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1358 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1359 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1360 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1362 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1363 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1364 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1365 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1366 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1367 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1369 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1370 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1371 past that check, despite the cost.
1373 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1374 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1375 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1377 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1378 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1379 TLS library to consume.
1381 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1383 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1385 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1386 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1387 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1388 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1389 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1390 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1391 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1393 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1395 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1397 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1398 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1399 should be warning-free.
1401 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1403 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1404 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1406 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1407 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1408 general solution here.
1410 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1411 already-broken messages in the queue.
1413 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1415 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1421 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1422 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1424 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1425 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1426 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1428 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1429 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1430 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1431 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1432 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1433 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1434 if one fails this test.
1435 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1436 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1438 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1439 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1441 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1442 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1444 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1445 in rewrites and routers.
1447 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1448 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1450 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1451 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1453 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1455 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1458 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1459 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1460 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1461 connection after a verify cache hit.
1462 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1464 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1465 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1467 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1468 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1469 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1470 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1471 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1473 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1474 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1476 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1477 Previously they were not counted.
1479 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1480 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1481 that needed the lookup.
1483 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1484 distinguished as "(=".
1486 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1487 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1489 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1491 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1492 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1494 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1495 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1497 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1498 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1501 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1502 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1503 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1504 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1506 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1508 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1509 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1510 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1512 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1513 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1514 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1517 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1518 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1519 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1522 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1523 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1524 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1526 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1527 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1530 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1532 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1533 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1535 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1536 are not in the system include path.
1538 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1539 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1540 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1541 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1543 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1544 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1545 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1547 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1549 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1550 an incoming connection.
1552 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1555 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1556 fallback to "prime256v1".
1558 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1559 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1565 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1566 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1567 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1568 client dropping the TLS connection.
1570 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1571 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1573 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1574 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1575 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1576 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1579 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1580 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1581 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1582 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1583 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1584 check on the next write.
1586 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1587 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1588 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1589 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1590 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1592 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1593 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1595 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1596 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1597 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1599 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1600 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1601 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1602 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1604 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1605 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1607 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1608 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1610 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1611 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1612 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1615 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1617 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1619 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1621 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1622 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1624 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1625 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1627 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1629 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1630 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1632 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1634 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1635 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1637 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1639 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1640 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1641 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1642 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1643 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1644 they will retry in-clear.
1645 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1646 at installation time.
1648 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1649 with the $config_file variable.
1651 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1652 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1653 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1654 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1655 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1657 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1658 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1659 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1660 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1661 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1663 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1665 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1666 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1667 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1668 list order is no longer honoured.
1670 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1671 for DKIM processing.
1673 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1674 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1676 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1677 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1678 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1679 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1681 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1682 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1684 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1685 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1687 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1688 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1690 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1692 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1693 cached by the daemon.
1695 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1696 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1698 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1699 keys are given for lookup.
1701 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1702 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1703 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1704 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1706 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1707 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1708 server-side so match that on older versions.
1710 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1711 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1712 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1714 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1715 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1717 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1718 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1719 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1720 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1721 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1722 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1723 initial truncated version.
1725 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1727 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1729 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1730 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1732 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1734 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1736 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1737 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1740 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1741 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1744 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1745 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1747 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1748 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1751 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1752 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1753 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1755 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1756 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1757 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1758 extraction. Accept either.
1764 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1767 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1769 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1772 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1773 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1774 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1775 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1777 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1778 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1779 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1781 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1782 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1783 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1786 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1789 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1790 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1791 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1792 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1793 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1795 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1796 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1797 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1799 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1801 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1802 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1804 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1805 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1807 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1810 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1811 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1813 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1814 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1815 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1817 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1818 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1819 specify a port-range.
1821 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1822 timeout value per server.
1824 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1825 now have the list separator specified.
1827 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1830 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1833 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1835 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1836 rather than the verbs used.
1838 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1839 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1841 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1843 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1844 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1846 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1847 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1849 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1850 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1852 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1854 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1856 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1857 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1858 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1859 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1861 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1863 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1864 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1866 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1867 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1869 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1871 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1873 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1875 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1876 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1878 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1879 added for tls authenticator.
1881 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1887 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1888 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1889 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1890 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1891 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1892 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1893 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1895 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1896 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1897 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1898 function when detected.
1900 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1901 cause callback expansion.
1903 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1904 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1905 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1906 instead of bool when processing it.
1908 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1909 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1911 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1913 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1915 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1917 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1918 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1920 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1921 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1922 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1923 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1924 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1925 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1927 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1928 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1931 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1932 version 3.3.6 or later.
1934 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1935 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1936 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1937 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1938 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1939 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1942 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1943 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1945 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1946 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1947 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1950 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1951 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1952 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1954 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1955 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1957 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1958 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1961 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1963 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1964 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1966 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1967 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1970 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1972 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1975 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1976 output list separator was used.
1981 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1982 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1985 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1986 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1988 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1990 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1991 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1997 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1999 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2000 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2001 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2002 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2003 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2004 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2006 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2007 utilities have not been installed.
2009 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2010 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2012 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2013 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2015 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2016 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2017 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2018 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2020 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2022 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2023 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2025 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2028 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2030 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2031 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2032 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2034 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2035 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2036 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2037 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2038 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2039 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2041 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2043 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2044 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2046 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2049 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2051 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2053 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2054 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2056 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2057 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2059 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2061 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2063 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2064 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2066 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2067 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2068 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2070 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2071 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2072 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2075 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2077 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2078 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2081 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2082 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2085 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2086 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2088 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2089 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2091 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2093 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2094 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2095 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2097 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2098 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2100 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2101 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2104 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2105 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2106 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2108 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2110 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2111 Christian Aistleitner.
2113 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2115 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2116 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2118 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2119 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2121 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2122 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2124 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2125 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2127 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2128 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2130 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2131 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2132 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2134 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2136 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2137 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2140 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2142 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2143 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2150 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2152 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2153 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2155 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2158 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2159 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2162 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2164 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2165 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2166 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2167 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2168 using channel bindings instead).
2170 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2171 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2172 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2173 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2174 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2177 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2179 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2181 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2182 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2184 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2185 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2186 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2188 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2190 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2192 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2193 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2195 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2197 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2199 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2201 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2202 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2204 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2206 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2207 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2210 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2211 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2213 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2214 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2217 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2219 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2221 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2222 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2224 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2227 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2228 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2230 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2231 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2233 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2235 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2237 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2240 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2243 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2245 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2246 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2247 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2248 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2250 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2252 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2253 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2254 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2255 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2258 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2259 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2260 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2262 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2263 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2264 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2265 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2267 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2268 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2269 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2270 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2271 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2272 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2273 delivery, as in LMTP.
2275 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2276 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2278 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2280 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2284 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2285 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2286 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2287 username as equal to the username.
2289 This change corrects that bug.
2291 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2292 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2293 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2295 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2297 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2298 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2299 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2300 NULL dereference and crash.
2302 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2304 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2305 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2306 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2308 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2310 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2311 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2312 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2313 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2314 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2315 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2316 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2317 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2318 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2319 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2320 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2322 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2323 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2325 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2326 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2329 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2330 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2331 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2332 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2333 an empty string is now equivalent.
2335 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2336 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2337 not performing validation itself.
2339 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2340 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2342 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2345 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2347 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2348 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2349 other false fix of the same issue.
2350 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2353 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2354 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2356 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2357 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2358 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2360 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2361 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2362 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2364 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2366 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2368 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2369 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2371 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2374 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2375 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2376 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2377 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2378 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2380 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2381 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2383 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2384 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2387 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2388 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2389 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2390 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2392 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2394 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2395 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2396 from multiple comments on this bug.
2398 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2400 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2401 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2404 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2405 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2407 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2408 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2414 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2416 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2422 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2423 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2424 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2426 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2428 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2431 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2433 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2435 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2437 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2438 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2440 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2441 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2443 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2444 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2446 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2447 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2448 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2450 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2452 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2453 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2455 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2457 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2459 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2460 non-compliant senders.
2461 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2463 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2464 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2465 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2467 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2468 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2469 in spool file corruption.
2471 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2472 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2473 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2476 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2477 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2478 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2480 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2481 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2483 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2485 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2487 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2489 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2490 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2491 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2493 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2494 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2495 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2496 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2498 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2499 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2501 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2502 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2503 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2504 resolver implementation change.
2506 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2507 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2509 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2511 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2513 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2514 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2516 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2517 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2519 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2520 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2522 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2523 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2524 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2525 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2526 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2528 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2530 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2531 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2532 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2534 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2536 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2537 read-only, out of scope).
2538 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2540 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2541 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2542 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2543 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2545 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2547 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2548 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2549 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2550 real issues in debug logging.
2552 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2553 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2555 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2556 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2557 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2559 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2560 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2561 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2564 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2565 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2567 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2568 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2569 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2570 needs to override this, it can.
2572 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2573 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2574 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2576 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2577 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2578 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2579 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2581 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2587 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2588 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2590 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2592 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2595 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2596 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2598 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2599 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2600 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2602 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2603 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2604 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2605 not safe for signals.
2607 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2608 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2609 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2610 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2613 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2615 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2616 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2617 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2618 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2619 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2621 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2622 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2623 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2624 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2625 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2626 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2628 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2629 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2630 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2631 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2633 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2634 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2635 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2636 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2638 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2639 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2640 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2641 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2642 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2643 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2644 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2645 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2646 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2648 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2649 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2650 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2651 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2653 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2654 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2655 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2656 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2657 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2658 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2659 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2660 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2661 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2662 details in the main documentation.
2664 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2666 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2668 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2669 repository when doing development or release builds.
2671 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2672 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2674 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2675 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2678 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2680 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2681 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2683 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2684 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2686 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2687 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2689 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2690 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2692 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2693 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2695 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2697 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2700 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2701 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2702 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2704 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2706 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2708 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2709 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2715 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2717 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2718 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2720 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2722 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2724 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2727 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2728 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2730 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2731 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2733 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2734 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2736 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2739 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2740 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2742 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2743 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2744 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2745 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2747 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2748 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2754 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2757 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2758 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2759 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2761 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2762 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2764 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2765 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2766 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2768 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2769 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2771 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2772 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2774 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2775 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2777 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2778 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2780 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2781 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2783 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2786 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2787 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2789 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2790 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2792 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2793 SQL string expansion failure details.
2794 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2796 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2797 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2799 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2800 extern declarations in function scope.
2801 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2803 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2804 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2805 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2808 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2809 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2811 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2812 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2814 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2815 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2817 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2818 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2820 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2821 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2824 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2826 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2828 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2829 Patch by Simon Arlott
2831 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2832 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2838 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2839 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2841 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2842 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2844 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2846 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2847 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2848 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2850 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2851 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2852 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2854 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2855 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2856 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2857 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2859 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2860 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2861 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2862 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2864 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2865 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2866 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2869 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2872 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2873 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2874 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2875 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2876 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2882 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2883 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2884 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2886 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2887 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2889 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2891 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2893 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2895 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2897 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2899 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2900 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2901 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2902 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2904 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2905 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2906 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2907 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2908 more caution in buffer sizes.
2910 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2912 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2914 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2916 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2918 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2920 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2922 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2924 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2925 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2926 ignore trailing whitespace.
2928 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2930 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2933 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2934 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2936 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2937 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2938 Notification from John Horne.
2940 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2943 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2944 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2947 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2950 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2951 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2952 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2954 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2955 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2956 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2959 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2960 option (effectively making it always true).
2962 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2963 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2965 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2966 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2968 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2969 run-time user, instead of root.
2971 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2972 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2974 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2975 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2978 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2979 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2980 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2982 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2984 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2990 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2991 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2994 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2995 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2998 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2999 Patch from Alain Williams
3001 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3003 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3004 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3006 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3007 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3009 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3011 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3013 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3014 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3016 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3018 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3020 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3021 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3022 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3024 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3025 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3027 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3028 Patch by Simon Arlott
3030 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3031 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3037 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3039 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3041 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3043 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3045 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3051 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3052 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3054 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3055 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3058 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3059 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3060 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3062 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3063 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3065 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3066 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3067 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3068 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3070 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3071 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3072 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3074 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3076 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3078 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3079 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3081 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3083 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3084 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3085 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3086 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3088 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3089 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3091 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3093 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3095 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3096 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3098 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3099 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3101 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3102 that they are available at delivery time.
3104 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3106 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3107 incoming_port log selectors.
3109 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3110 setting expands to an empty string.
3112 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3113 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3115 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3116 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3118 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3119 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3121 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3122 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3124 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3125 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3127 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3128 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3130 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3132 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3133 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3135 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3136 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3138 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3140 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3141 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3143 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3145 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3147 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3150 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3151 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3153 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3154 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3156 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3157 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3159 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3160 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3162 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3163 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3165 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3166 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3168 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3169 plus update to original patch.
3171 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3173 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3174 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3176 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3178 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3180 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3182 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3184 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3185 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3187 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3188 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3190 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3191 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3193 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3194 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3196 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3198 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3200 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3202 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3208 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3209 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3210 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3212 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3213 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3214 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3215 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3216 build errors in sieve.c.
3218 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3219 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3220 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3222 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3224 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3226 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3228 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3234 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3236 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3237 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3238 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3239 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3240 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3241 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3242 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3243 for iplsearch lookups.
3245 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3246 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3247 previously such lookups could never work.
3249 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3250 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3251 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3253 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3256 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3257 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3258 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3259 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3260 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3261 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3263 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3264 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3266 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3267 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3268 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3269 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3270 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3271 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3273 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3276 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3278 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3279 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3282 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3283 by clients under certain conditions.
3285 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3286 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3288 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3290 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3291 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3293 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3295 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3297 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3299 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3300 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3302 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3304 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3305 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3307 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3309 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3311 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3312 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3313 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3314 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3316 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3317 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3318 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3320 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3321 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3323 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3325 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3327 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3329 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3330 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3331 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3337 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3338 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3341 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3342 issue a MAIL command.
3344 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3346 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3348 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3349 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3350 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3351 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3352 item. This has been fixed.
3354 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3355 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3357 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3358 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3360 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3361 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3362 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3364 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3366 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3367 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3368 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3369 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3370 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3372 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3373 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3374 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3376 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3377 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3378 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3379 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3381 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3383 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3385 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3386 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3387 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3388 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3389 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3391 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3393 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3394 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3395 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3398 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3400 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3402 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3404 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3406 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3408 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3409 no_callout_flush is set.
3411 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3412 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3413 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3416 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3418 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3419 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3420 other ACL rejections are.
3422 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3423 with slight modification.
3425 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3426 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3428 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3429 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3432 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3433 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3435 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3437 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3438 expansion side effects.
3440 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3441 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3442 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3445 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3446 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3447 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3449 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3450 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3451 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3452 were accidentally chopped off.
3454 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3455 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3456 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3457 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3458 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3459 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3460 pipelining has not been advertised.
3462 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3464 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3465 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3466 This has been fixed.
3468 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3469 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3470 reported on Solaris.
3472 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3473 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3474 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3475 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3476 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3477 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3478 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3480 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3483 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3485 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3487 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3488 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3489 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3490 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3491 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3492 criteria to be more general.
3494 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3495 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3496 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3497 host_all_ignored option.
3499 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3500 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3501 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3502 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3503 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3504 is what is supposed to happen).
3506 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3507 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3508 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3509 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3510 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3513 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3514 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3515 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3516 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3517 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3518 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3521 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3523 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3524 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3526 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3527 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3529 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3531 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3533 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3534 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3535 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3536 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3537 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3538 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3539 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3540 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3541 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3542 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3543 least in a lot of common cases.
3545 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3546 advertised in response to EHLO.
3552 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3553 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3555 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3556 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3558 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3559 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3560 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3562 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3563 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3564 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3565 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3566 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3572 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3573 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3576 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3577 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3578 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3580 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3581 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3582 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3583 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3584 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3585 rather than extend the field.
3591 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3592 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3593 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3594 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3597 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3598 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3599 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3601 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3602 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3603 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3605 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3606 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3607 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3610 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3611 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3612 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3613 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3614 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3615 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3616 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3617 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3618 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3619 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3620 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3622 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3625 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3626 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3627 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3628 ignores EPIPE as well.
3630 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3631 (quoted-printable decoding).
3633 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3634 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3636 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3638 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3640 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3642 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3643 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3645 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3648 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3649 miscellaneous code fixes
3651 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3654 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3655 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3656 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3657 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3658 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3659 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3660 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3661 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3663 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3664 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3665 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3666 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3668 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3669 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3670 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3671 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3672 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3673 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3674 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3675 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3676 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3678 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3681 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3682 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3683 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3684 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3685 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3686 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3687 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3688 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3690 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3691 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3694 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3695 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3696 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3697 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3698 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3699 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3700 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3701 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3702 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3703 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3704 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3705 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3706 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3708 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3709 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3710 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3711 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3712 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3713 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3714 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3716 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3717 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3718 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3719 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3720 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3721 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3722 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3723 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3724 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3725 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3727 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3728 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3729 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3730 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3731 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3733 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3734 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3735 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3736 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3737 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3738 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3739 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3741 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3742 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3743 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3744 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3745 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3746 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3749 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3750 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3751 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3754 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3755 if any retry times were supplied.
3757 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3758 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3759 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3761 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3763 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3765 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3766 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3767 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3768 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3769 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3770 before) are ignored.
3772 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3773 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3775 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3776 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3777 committing the later change.]
3779 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3780 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3781 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3782 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3783 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3784 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3785 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3786 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3787 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3789 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3790 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3791 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3792 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3793 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3794 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3795 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3796 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3797 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3799 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3800 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3801 hammering the server.
3803 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3804 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3806 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3808 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3809 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3810 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3812 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3813 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3814 one case where this was not true.
3816 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3817 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3818 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3819 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3822 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3823 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3824 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3825 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3826 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3827 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3828 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3829 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3830 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3833 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3834 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3835 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3836 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3838 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3839 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3841 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3842 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3843 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3845 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3847 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3849 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3851 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3852 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3853 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3854 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3856 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3857 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3859 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3860 be meaningful with "accept".
3862 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3863 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3865 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3866 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3867 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3869 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3870 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3871 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3872 there is data to show.
3873 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3875 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3876 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3877 as well as the number of messages.
3879 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3880 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3881 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3883 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3884 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3885 have a flag are now skipped.
3887 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3888 Added the -emptyok flag.
3890 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3891 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3893 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3894 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3895 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3897 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3900 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3901 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3903 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3905 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3906 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3908 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3910 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3911 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3912 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3913 contravention of the specifications.
3915 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3916 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3917 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3919 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3920 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3921 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3923 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3925 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3926 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3927 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3928 some point in the past.
3930 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3931 transport during callout processing was broken.
3933 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3934 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3936 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3937 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3939 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3940 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3942 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3948 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3949 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3951 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3952 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3953 there is data to show.
3954 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3956 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3957 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3959 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3960 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3962 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3963 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3965 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3966 submissions from trusted users.
3968 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3969 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3971 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3972 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3973 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3974 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3975 there is now a framework to start from.
3977 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3978 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3979 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3981 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3983 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3985 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3987 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3988 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3989 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3991 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3994 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3995 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3996 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3998 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3999 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4000 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4003 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4004 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4005 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4006 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4007 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4009 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4010 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4012 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4014 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4015 operations in malware.c.
4017 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4020 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4021 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4022 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4025 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4026 statements to "add_header".
4028 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4029 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4031 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4032 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4035 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4039 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4040 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4041 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4044 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4045 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4047 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4048 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4050 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4051 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4052 any possible encoding problems.
4054 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4055 but not after initializing Perl.
4057 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4058 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4059 apparently, which is not desirable.
4061 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4064 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4067 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4069 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4070 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4071 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4072 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4074 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4075 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4076 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4078 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4079 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4080 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4083 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4084 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4085 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4086 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4087 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4093 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4094 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4096 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4099 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4100 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4101 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4102 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4103 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4104 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4105 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4106 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4109 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4111 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4112 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4113 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4115 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4116 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4117 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4120 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4121 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4123 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4124 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4125 option (which defaults to 0600).
4127 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4129 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4130 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4131 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4132 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4133 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4134 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4135 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4137 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4143 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4144 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4145 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4146 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4147 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4148 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4151 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4152 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4154 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4156 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4157 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4158 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4159 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4160 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4163 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4164 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4166 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4167 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4168 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4169 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4170 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4172 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4173 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4174 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4175 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4177 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4178 be the same on different OS.
4180 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4183 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4184 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4186 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4189 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4190 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4191 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4192 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4193 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4194 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4197 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4198 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4199 when Exim was called.
4201 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4202 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4204 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4205 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4206 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4207 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4209 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4210 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4211 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4212 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4215 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4216 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4217 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4219 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4220 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4221 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4223 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4226 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4227 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4228 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4229 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4230 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4231 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4232 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4233 values from the SRV records were lost.
4235 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4236 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4237 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4239 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4240 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4241 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4243 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4244 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4245 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4246 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4247 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4248 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4249 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4250 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4251 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4252 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4254 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4255 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4256 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4258 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4259 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4261 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4262 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4263 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4264 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4267 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4268 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4269 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4271 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4272 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4273 PH/23 above applies.
4275 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4276 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4277 (for which there is an explicit test).
4279 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4281 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4282 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4283 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4284 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4285 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4287 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4288 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4289 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4290 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4292 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4293 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4294 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4296 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4298 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4300 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4301 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4302 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4304 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4305 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4306 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4307 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4308 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4310 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4311 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4312 the message gets confusing).
4314 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4315 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4316 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4317 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4319 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4320 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4321 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4322 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4325 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4326 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4327 the different processes.
4329 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4331 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4333 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4334 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4336 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4337 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4339 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4340 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4341 messages matching specified criteria.
4343 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4345 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4346 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4348 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4349 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4350 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4351 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4352 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4353 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4354 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4355 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4356 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4357 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4359 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4360 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4361 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4363 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4365 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4366 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4367 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4368 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4369 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4370 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4371 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4374 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4375 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4377 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4379 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4381 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4383 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4384 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4385 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4386 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4387 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4388 size of the count of files.
4390 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4392 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4395 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4396 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4397 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4398 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4400 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4401 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4402 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4404 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4405 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4406 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4407 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4408 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4410 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4411 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4413 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4414 will now be deprecated.
4416 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4418 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4419 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4420 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4422 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4423 with very large, slow to parse queues
4425 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4427 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4429 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4430 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4431 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4434 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4435 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4436 Sieve code now uses this.
4438 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4439 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4441 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4442 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4444 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4446 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4447 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4448 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4449 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4450 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4452 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4453 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4454 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4455 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4457 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4459 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4461 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4462 is preferred over IPv4.
4464 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4465 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4466 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4467 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4468 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4469 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4470 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4472 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4473 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4474 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4476 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4478 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4479 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4480 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4481 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4482 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4483 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4484 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4485 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4486 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4487 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4488 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4490 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4491 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4492 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4498 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4500 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4501 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4503 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4504 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4505 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4507 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4509 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4512 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4515 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4516 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4517 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4520 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4521 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4523 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4524 inside the third argument.
4526 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4527 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4530 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4531 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4533 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4534 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4536 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4538 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4539 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4542 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4544 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4545 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4546 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4547 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4548 identical. For example:
4550 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4552 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4553 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4554 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4556 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4557 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4558 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4559 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4561 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4562 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4563 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4566 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4568 o fixes some comments
4569 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4570 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4571 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4572 and documents the missing references header update
4576 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4577 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4580 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4581 Electronic Mail") by including:
4583 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4585 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4586 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4587 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4588 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4589 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4591 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4593 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4595 The auto-replied keyword:
4597 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4598 message by an automatic process,
4600 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4602 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4603 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4605 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4606 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4609 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4610 to the default Received: header definition.
4612 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4614 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4615 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4616 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4618 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4619 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4620 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4622 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4623 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4624 and treats the condition as false.
4626 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4628 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4629 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4630 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4631 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4632 not changing the active code.
4634 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4635 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4637 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4638 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4640 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4643 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4644 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4645 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4646 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4647 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4648 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4649 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4650 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4651 the text comparison.
4653 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4654 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4655 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4656 The same fix has been applied.
4662 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4663 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4666 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4667 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4669 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4671 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4672 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4673 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4674 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4675 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4677 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4678 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4679 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4680 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4683 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4691 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4692 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4694 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4696 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4698 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4699 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4700 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4702 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4703 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4704 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4706 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4707 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4710 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4711 ${stat: expansion item.
4713 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4714 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4716 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4717 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4720 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4722 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4725 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4726 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4728 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4730 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4731 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4732 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4733 the end of the subprocess.
4735 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4736 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4737 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4738 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4739 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4741 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4743 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4745 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4746 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4748 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4750 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4752 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4753 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4756 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4758 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4759 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4760 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4762 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4763 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4765 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4766 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4768 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4769 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4771 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4772 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4774 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4775 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4776 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4777 contributed by a Radius user.
4779 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4780 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4782 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4783 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4785 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4788 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4789 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4792 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4793 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4794 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4795 header lines when this was not necessary.
4797 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4799 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4800 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4801 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4804 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4807 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4808 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4809 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4810 return code was incorrect.
4812 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4814 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4816 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4818 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4820 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4821 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4822 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4823 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4824 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4827 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4829 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4830 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4831 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4832 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4833 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4834 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4835 which is clearly wrong.
4837 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4839 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4840 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4841 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4844 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4845 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4847 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4849 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4850 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4852 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4853 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4855 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4856 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4858 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4859 recipients, not senders.
4861 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4862 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4864 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4866 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4868 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4869 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4870 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4871 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4873 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4875 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4876 clock is set back in time.
4878 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4879 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4881 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4882 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4884 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4885 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4888 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4889 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4892 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4895 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4897 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4898 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4899 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4901 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4902 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4903 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4904 helo verification defer as a failure.
4906 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4907 actual error message.
4913 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4915 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4916 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4917 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4918 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4920 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4922 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4923 can still be requested.
4925 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4926 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4927 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4928 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4930 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4931 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4932 circumstances, but probably never did.
4934 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4935 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4936 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4939 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4941 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4942 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4944 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4946 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4948 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4949 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4950 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4951 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4952 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4953 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4955 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4956 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4957 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4958 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4959 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4960 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4962 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4963 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4965 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4966 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4968 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4969 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4971 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4973 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4975 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4977 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4979 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4981 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4983 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4985 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4986 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4987 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4989 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4990 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4991 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4992 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4994 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4995 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4996 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4998 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4999 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5000 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5001 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5003 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5004 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5007 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5008 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5009 should work with maildirs and everything.
5011 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5012 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5014 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5017 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5018 function for BDB 4.3.
5020 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5022 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5023 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5026 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5027 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5028 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5029 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5030 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5031 formatting function string_vformat().
5033 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5034 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5035 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5036 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5037 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5038 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5039 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5040 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5042 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5043 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5046 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5047 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5049 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5050 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5051 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5052 test. It is now used for both.
5054 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5055 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5056 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5057 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5058 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5059 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5061 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5062 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5063 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5066 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5067 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5068 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5070 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5071 experimental DomainKeys support:
5073 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5074 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5075 the control was given.
5077 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5079 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5081 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5083 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5084 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5085 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5088 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5089 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5090 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5091 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5092 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5093 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5096 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5097 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5098 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5099 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5100 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5101 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5103 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5104 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5105 do -d+all out of habit.
5107 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5108 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5111 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5112 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5113 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5114 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5115 record types that Exim uses.
5117 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5118 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5119 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5120 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5121 non-existent file that was broken.
5123 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5124 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5126 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5127 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5128 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5130 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5132 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5133 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5134 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5135 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5136 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5139 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5140 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5141 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5142 at a slight CPU cost.
5144 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5145 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5147 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5150 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5152 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5153 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5159 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5160 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5162 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5164 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5166 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5167 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5169 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5170 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5171 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5172 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5173 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5174 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5177 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5178 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5179 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5180 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5183 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5184 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5185 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5186 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5187 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5188 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5189 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5192 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5193 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5195 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5196 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5197 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5198 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5199 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5200 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5202 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5203 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5204 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5205 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5207 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5210 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5211 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5213 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5214 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5215 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5216 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5219 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5221 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5222 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5224 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5225 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5226 to what was transported.)
5228 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5230 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5231 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5232 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5233 spamd_address settings.
5235 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5236 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5237 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5238 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5239 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5241 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5243 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5244 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5245 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5246 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5247 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5249 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5250 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5252 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5253 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5254 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5255 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5256 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5257 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5258 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5261 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5262 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5263 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5264 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5265 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5266 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5267 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5270 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5272 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5273 driver and ACL definitions.
5275 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5276 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5278 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5279 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5280 understands it better than I do:
5282 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5283 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5285 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5286 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5287 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5288 => three warnings about OTP not working
5289 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5291 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5292 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5293 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5294 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5296 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5297 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5299 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5300 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5301 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5303 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5304 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5307 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5308 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5311 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5312 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5313 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5315 warn !verify = sender
5316 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5318 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5319 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5321 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5323 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5324 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5326 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5327 nomenclature these days.)
5329 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5330 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5332 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5333 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5334 . First host does not offer TLS;
5335 . First host accepts first address;
5336 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5337 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5338 . Second host accepts second address.
5339 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5340 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5343 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5344 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5345 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5346 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5347 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5349 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5350 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5352 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5353 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5355 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5356 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5357 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5359 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5360 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5363 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5365 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5366 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5367 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5368 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5369 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5370 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5371 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5373 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5374 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5375 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5376 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5377 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5379 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5380 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5383 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5384 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5385 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5386 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5387 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5388 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5390 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5392 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5393 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5394 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5395 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5396 printable escape sequences.
5398 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5399 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5402 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5403 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5406 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5407 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5408 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5409 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5410 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5412 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5413 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5414 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5416 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5418 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5419 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5422 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5423 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5424 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5425 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5426 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5427 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5428 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5429 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5430 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5433 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5434 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5435 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5436 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5440 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5441 ----------------------------------------
5443 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5444 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5445 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5446 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5447 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5448 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5451 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5452 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5453 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5454 historical information.
5460 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5462 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5463 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5465 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5466 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5469 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5470 filter fails to execute.
5472 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5473 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5474 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5475 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5476 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5478 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5480 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5481 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5482 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5483 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5485 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5486 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5487 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5488 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5489 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5491 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5493 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5495 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5496 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5497 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5498 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5500 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5501 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5502 sender verification.
5504 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5505 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5507 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5509 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5512 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5513 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5515 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5516 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5518 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5519 information about exactly what failed.
5521 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5523 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5524 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5525 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5527 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5528 It is now set to "smtps".
5530 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5531 ignore_target_hosts.
5533 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5534 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5535 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5536 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5539 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5540 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5541 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5543 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5544 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5545 wake it up if nothing else does.
5547 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5548 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5549 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5552 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5553 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5555 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5557 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5558 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5559 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5560 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5561 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5562 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5563 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5564 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5566 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5567 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5568 than one IP address.
5570 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5571 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5572 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5573 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5575 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5576 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5577 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5578 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5579 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5582 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5583 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5584 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5585 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5587 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5588 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5591 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5592 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5593 $sender_host_address.
5595 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5596 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5597 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5598 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5599 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5602 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5604 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5605 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5607 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5608 just the host names, not the priorities.
5610 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5611 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5612 controlled by a keyword.
5614 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5615 multiple records are returned.
5617 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5618 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5621 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5623 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5624 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5626 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5627 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5628 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5630 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5632 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5634 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5636 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5637 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5638 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5639 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5640 because the tests only now provoked it.
5642 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5643 (this can affect the format of dates).
5645 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5646 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5647 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5648 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5650 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5652 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5653 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5654 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5655 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5657 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5658 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5659 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5661 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5664 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5665 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5666 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5667 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5668 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5669 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5672 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5673 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5674 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5677 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5678 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5679 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5681 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5682 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5683 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5684 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5685 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5686 so I produce this patch..."
5688 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5689 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5692 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5693 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5694 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5695 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5698 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5700 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5701 long debug lines gets shown.
5703 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5704 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5706 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5708 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5709 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5710 of $primary_hostname.
5712 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5713 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5714 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5715 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5716 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5717 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5718 by change 4.50/55 above.
5720 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5721 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5722 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5723 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5724 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5725 running as the user.
5728 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5729 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5730 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5733 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5734 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5736 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5737 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5738 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5739 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5740 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5742 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5743 This has been fixed.
5745 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5746 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5747 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5748 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5751 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5753 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5754 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5755 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5756 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5758 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5759 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5761 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5762 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5763 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5765 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5766 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5767 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5770 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5771 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5772 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5774 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5775 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5776 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5777 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5779 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5780 during host lookups.
5782 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5783 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5785 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5787 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5788 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5789 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5790 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5791 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5794 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5795 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5797 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5798 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5799 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5801 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5803 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5804 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5805 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5806 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5807 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5808 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5811 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5812 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5813 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5814 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5815 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5817 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5820 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5822 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5823 "vacation" handling.
5825 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5826 OS variants using glibc.
5828 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5831 ----------------------------------------------------
5832 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5833 ----------------------------------------------------
5839 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5840 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5843 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5844 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5847 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5848 filter fails to execute.
5850 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5851 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5852 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5853 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5854 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5856 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5857 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5858 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5859 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5861 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5862 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5863 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5864 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5865 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5867 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5869 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5870 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5871 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5872 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5874 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5875 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5876 sender verification.
5878 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5879 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5881 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5882 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5884 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5885 ignore_target_hosts.
5887 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5888 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5889 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5890 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5893 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5894 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5895 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5897 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5898 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5899 wake it up if nothing else does.
5901 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5902 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5903 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5906 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5907 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5909 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5911 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5912 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5915 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5916 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5919 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5920 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5921 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5922 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5923 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5926 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5927 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5930 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5931 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5932 $sender_host_address.
5934 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5936 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5937 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5938 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5940 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5943 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5944 (this can affect the format of dates).
5946 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5947 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5948 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5949 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5951 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5952 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5953 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5955 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5956 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5957 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5958 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5960 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5961 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5962 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5964 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5967 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5968 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5969 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5970 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5971 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5972 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5975 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5976 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5977 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5978 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5981 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5982 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5983 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5984 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5985 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5986 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5987 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5989 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5990 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5991 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5992 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5993 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5994 running as the user.
5997 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5998 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5999 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6002 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6003 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6004 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6005 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6006 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6008 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6009 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6010 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6011 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6014 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6015 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6016 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6017 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6018 because the tests only now provoked it.
6024 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6025 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6026 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6027 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6028 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6029 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6030 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6032 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6033 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6036 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6038 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6040 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6041 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6044 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6045 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6046 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6047 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6048 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6050 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6051 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6053 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6055 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6057 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6060 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6061 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6063 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6064 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6065 affecting debugging statements).
6067 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6069 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6070 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6071 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6072 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6073 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6074 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6075 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6076 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6077 after the received time, and all would be well.
6079 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6080 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6081 condition in an expansion string.
6083 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6085 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6086 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6087 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6088 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6089 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6090 job under whatever limits there are.
6092 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6094 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6097 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6098 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6099 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6100 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6103 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6104 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6105 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6106 binary data in such strings.
6108 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6110 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6111 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6112 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6113 failure, which is pointless.
6115 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6117 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6119 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6120 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6121 Sender: header lines.
6123 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6124 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6125 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6127 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6128 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6129 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6130 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6131 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6134 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6135 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6136 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6137 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6138 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6140 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6141 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6142 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6145 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6146 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6148 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6149 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6151 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6153 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6155 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6157 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6160 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6162 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6164 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6165 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6166 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6167 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6169 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6170 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6176 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6177 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6178 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6180 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6181 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6182 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6183 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6184 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6185 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6187 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6188 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6189 verification failure".
6191 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6192 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6193 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6194 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6196 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6197 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6198 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6199 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6200 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6201 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6202 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6203 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6204 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6205 treated as a timeout.
6207 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6208 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6209 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6210 not set for Exim filters).
6212 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6213 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6214 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6216 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6218 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6219 try to make them clearer.
6221 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6222 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6224 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6226 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6228 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6229 only the Cygwin environment.
6231 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6232 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6233 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6234 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6235 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6237 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6238 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6239 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6240 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6241 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6242 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6243 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6245 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6246 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6248 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6250 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6251 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6252 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6254 To: susanne@some.where
6256 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6257 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6258 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6259 of addresses in From: header lines).
6261 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6262 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6263 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6265 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6266 treated as non-personal.
6268 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6269 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6271 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6273 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6275 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6276 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6277 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6279 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6280 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6282 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6283 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6284 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6285 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6286 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6287 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6289 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6290 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6291 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6292 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6293 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6294 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6295 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6296 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6298 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6300 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6301 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6303 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6304 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6305 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6307 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6308 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6310 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6311 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6312 rather than long int.
6314 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6316 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6322 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6323 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6324 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6325 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6326 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6327 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6333 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6334 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6336 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6337 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6338 socklen_t is defined.
6340 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6343 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6346 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6347 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6348 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6349 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6350 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6352 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6353 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6354 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6355 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6357 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6358 of flapping under certain conditions.
6360 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6361 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6362 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6364 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6366 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6368 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6369 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6370 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6371 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6373 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6374 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6375 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6376 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6377 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6378 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6379 preserved with the message after it was received.
6381 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6382 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6383 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6384 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6385 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6386 test suite worked just fine.
6388 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6389 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6390 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6392 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6393 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6396 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6397 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6398 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6399 does not fully solve it.
6401 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6402 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6403 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6404 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6405 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6407 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6408 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6409 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6411 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6412 string, for example:
6414 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6416 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6417 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6418 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6419 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6420 the routers could not see them.
6422 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6423 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6425 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6426 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6429 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6430 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6431 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6432 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6433 that needed quoting.
6435 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6436 was not being matched caselessly.
6438 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6441 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6442 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6443 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6444 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6445 when use_sender is false.
6447 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6449 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6451 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6453 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6454 the configuration file.
6456 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6457 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6459 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6461 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6462 bytes in the message body.
6464 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6465 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6468 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6470 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6472 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6473 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6474 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6475 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6482 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6483 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6485 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6486 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6487 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6488 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6489 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6491 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6492 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6494 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6495 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6496 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6498 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6499 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6500 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6502 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6505 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6506 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6507 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6508 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6509 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6510 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6511 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6517 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6518 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6519 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6520 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6521 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6522 default (and expected) setting.
6524 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6525 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6526 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6527 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6529 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6530 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6532 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6535 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6536 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6537 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6538 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6539 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6540 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6542 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6543 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6544 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6546 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6547 part (NOT match_host).
6549 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6551 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6552 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6553 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6554 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6555 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6556 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6557 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6558 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6559 the same named file.
6561 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6562 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6565 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6566 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6567 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6568 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6571 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6572 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6573 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6575 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6577 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6579 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6581 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6582 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6584 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6585 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6586 before starting the TLS session.
6588 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6590 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6591 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6593 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6594 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6595 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6596 colon in the middle).
6602 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6603 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6604 multiple configurations are in use.
6606 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6607 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6608 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6609 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6610 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6611 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6613 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6614 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6616 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6617 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6618 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6620 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6621 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6624 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6625 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6627 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6629 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6630 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6632 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6640 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6641 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6642 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6643 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6644 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6646 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6649 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6650 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6651 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6652 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6653 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6654 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6656 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6657 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6658 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6659 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6660 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6661 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6662 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6665 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6666 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6667 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6668 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6669 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6671 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6673 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6674 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6675 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6677 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6679 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6680 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6681 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6684 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6685 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6687 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6688 Three changes have been made:
6690 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6691 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6692 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6693 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6694 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6696 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6699 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6700 the modified behaviour.
6706 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6709 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6710 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6712 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6713 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6714 try to track down a specific problem.
6716 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6717 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6718 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6720 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6723 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6724 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6725 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6726 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6727 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6728 some earlier ones do not.
6730 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6732 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6733 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6734 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6735 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6736 address literals are enabled, of course).
6738 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6740 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6741 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6742 by a command such as
6746 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6748 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6750 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6751 remained set. It is now erased.
6753 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6754 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6756 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6757 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6758 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6759 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6760 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6761 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6762 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6763 appropriate error code.
6765 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6766 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6767 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6768 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6769 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6770 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6772 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6773 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6774 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6776 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6777 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6778 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6779 terminate the header.
6781 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6782 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6783 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6785 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6786 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6787 (4.30/29). In particular:
6789 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6792 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6793 to write a maildirsize file.
6795 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6796 the transport, the new value overrides.
6798 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6801 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6802 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6803 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6806 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6807 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6808 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6811 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6812 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6813 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6815 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6816 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6819 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6820 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6821 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6823 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6825 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6827 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6829 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6830 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6833 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6834 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6835 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6836 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6837 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6838 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6839 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6842 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6843 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6844 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6845 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6846 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6849 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6850 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6851 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6852 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6853 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6854 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6855 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6856 cached value only when the same options are set.
6858 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6860 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6861 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6862 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6863 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6864 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6866 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6867 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6868 it is clearly obsolete.
6870 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6873 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6874 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6875 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6878 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6879 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6880 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6881 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6882 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6884 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6885 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6886 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6887 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6889 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6891 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6893 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6894 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6897 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6898 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6899 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6900 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6901 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6902 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6905 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6906 with the -f command-line option.
6908 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6909 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6910 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6911 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6912 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6913 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6915 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6916 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6919 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6920 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6921 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6922 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6923 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6924 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6925 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6926 buffer is too small.
6928 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6929 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6931 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6932 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6933 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6934 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6935 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6936 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6937 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6938 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6939 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6941 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6942 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6943 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6945 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6946 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6949 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6950 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6951 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6952 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6953 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6955 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6956 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6957 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6958 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6961 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6963 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6965 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6966 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6968 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6969 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6970 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6972 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6973 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6974 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6975 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6976 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6978 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6979 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6980 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6981 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6982 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6983 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6984 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6986 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6987 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6988 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6989 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6990 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6991 the test of how many are available.
6993 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6994 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6995 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6996 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6997 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6998 new message is started.
7000 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7001 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7003 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7004 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7006 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7007 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7008 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7011 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7012 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7013 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7014 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7015 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7016 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7017 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7019 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7020 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7021 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7022 interpreted as octal.
7024 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7027 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7028 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7029 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7030 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7031 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7032 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7034 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7035 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7036 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7037 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7039 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7040 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7041 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7042 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7044 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7045 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7048 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7049 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7051 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7053 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7054 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7055 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7056 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7058 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7059 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7060 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7061 supplied", which is not helpful.
7063 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7064 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7065 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7067 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7068 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7069 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7070 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7071 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7072 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7073 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7074 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7076 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7077 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7078 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7079 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7080 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7082 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7083 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7084 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7085 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7086 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7087 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7089 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7090 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7091 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7093 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7095 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7096 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7097 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7100 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7102 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7103 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7104 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7105 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7106 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7107 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7108 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7109 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7111 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7112 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7113 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7114 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7115 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7117 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7120 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7121 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7122 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7123 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7124 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7125 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7126 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7127 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7128 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7134 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7135 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7136 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7138 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7141 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7142 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7143 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7145 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7146 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7147 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7148 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7149 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7150 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7152 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7153 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7154 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7155 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7156 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7157 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7158 the Exim test suite.
7160 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7161 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7162 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7163 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7165 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7166 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7167 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7168 specify it in this variable.
7170 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7171 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7172 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7173 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7175 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7176 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7177 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7178 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7180 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7181 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7182 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7183 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7184 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7186 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7188 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7191 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7192 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7193 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7194 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7195 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7197 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7198 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7200 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7201 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7202 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7203 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7204 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7206 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7207 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7209 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7210 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7211 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7213 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7214 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7216 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7217 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7219 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7220 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7221 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7223 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7224 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7226 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7227 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7228 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7229 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7231 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7233 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7234 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7235 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7236 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7238 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7240 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7241 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7243 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7245 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7246 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7247 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7248 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7249 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7250 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7252 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7254 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7255 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7258 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7260 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7261 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7263 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7264 550 Sender verify failed
7266 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7267 the final line of the response.
7269 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7270 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7271 all other user lookups.
7273 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7276 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7277 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7278 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7279 result into an int without checking.
7281 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7282 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7283 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7285 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7286 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7287 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7288 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7290 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7293 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7294 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7296 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7297 to the empty sender.
7299 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7300 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7301 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7302 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7303 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7304 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7305 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7308 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7309 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7310 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7311 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7314 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7315 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7317 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7320 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7321 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7323 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7325 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7326 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7329 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7330 as soon as it is encountered.
7332 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7334 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7337 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7338 recognizes a tab character.
7340 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7341 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7342 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7343 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7345 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7347 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7350 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7352 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7354 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7355 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7358 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7359 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7360 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7361 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7362 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7364 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7365 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7367 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7368 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7369 list (.included file names were always shown).
7371 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7372 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7373 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7376 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7377 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7379 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7381 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7383 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7385 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7386 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7387 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7388 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7389 failures to open the logs.
7391 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7392 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7393 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7394 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7395 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7396 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7397 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7403 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7404 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7405 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7408 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7409 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7410 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7412 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7413 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7414 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7416 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7417 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7418 causing some misleading effects.
7420 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7421 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7422 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7424 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7425 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7426 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7427 queue-runner function directly.
7433 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7436 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7437 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7438 was always written to the default place.
7440 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7441 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7442 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7444 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7446 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7448 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7449 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7450 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7452 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7453 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7456 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7457 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7458 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7460 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7461 command line option is disabled.
7463 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7464 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7466 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7468 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7470 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7471 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7473 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7475 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7476 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7477 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7478 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7479 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7480 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7482 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7483 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7486 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7487 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7489 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7490 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7492 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7493 received was valid base64.
7495 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7496 name of the variable that was being set.
7498 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7500 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7501 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7502 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7503 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7504 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7505 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7507 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7509 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7510 nor realm was specified.
7512 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7513 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7514 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7515 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7517 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7518 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7519 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7521 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7522 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7523 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7525 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7526 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7527 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7528 some systems use these upper case variants.
7530 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7531 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7532 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7533 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7535 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7537 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7538 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7540 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7541 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7544 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7546 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7547 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7548 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7549 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7551 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7554 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7555 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7556 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7558 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7559 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7561 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7562 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7563 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7564 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7566 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7567 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7568 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7570 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7572 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7573 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7574 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7575 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7578 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7579 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7580 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7582 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7584 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7585 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7587 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7588 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7590 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7591 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7592 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7593 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7594 when emails are that large.
7601 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7602 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7604 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7605 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7606 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7608 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7609 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7610 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7612 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7613 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7614 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7615 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7616 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7618 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7619 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7620 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7621 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7622 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7625 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7626 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7627 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7628 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7629 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7630 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7631 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7632 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7633 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7634 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7635 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7636 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7637 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7638 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7640 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7641 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7644 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7645 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7646 error should be diagnosed.
7648 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7649 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7650 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7651 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7652 appeared instead of "NULL".
7654 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7655 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7656 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7657 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7658 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7659 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7662 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7663 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7664 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7670 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7671 or receiver verification errors.
7673 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7676 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7677 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7678 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7679 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7681 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7682 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7683 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7684 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7685 shouldn't happen again.
7687 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7688 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7689 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7691 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7692 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7694 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7696 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7697 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7699 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7700 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7703 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7704 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7705 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7707 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7708 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7709 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7710 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7712 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7713 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7714 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7715 to define what should happen).
7717 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7718 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7719 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7721 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7723 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7725 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7726 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7728 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7729 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7730 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7731 structure in all cases.
7733 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7734 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7735 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7736 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7738 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7739 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7742 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7743 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7745 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7746 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7748 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7749 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7750 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7752 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7753 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7754 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7756 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7757 the book and for uniformity.
7759 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7761 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7762 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7763 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7764 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7765 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7766 non-existent command as the problem.
7768 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7769 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7770 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7772 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7774 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7775 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7776 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7778 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7779 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7780 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7781 timestamps using strftime().
7783 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7784 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7786 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7787 transport-time rewrites.
7789 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7790 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7791 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7792 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7794 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7795 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7797 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7798 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7799 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7800 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7803 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7804 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7805 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7806 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7807 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7808 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7809 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7811 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7812 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7813 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7814 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7815 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7817 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7818 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7819 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7820 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7821 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7822 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7823 remaining text gets split now.
7825 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7826 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7827 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7828 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7830 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7831 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7832 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7833 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7836 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7837 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7838 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7839 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7840 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7841 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7842 passed through if needed.
7844 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7845 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7846 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7847 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7848 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7849 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7851 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7852 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7853 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7854 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7855 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7857 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7858 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7859 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7860 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7861 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7863 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7864 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7867 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7868 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7869 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7870 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7871 mayhem of various kinds.
7873 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7874 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7875 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7876 the right test for positive values.
7878 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7879 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7880 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7881 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7882 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7883 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7884 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7885 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7886 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7887 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7890 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7893 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7894 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7897 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7898 the existing equality matching.
7900 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7901 dealing with inode numbers.
7903 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7904 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7905 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7907 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7908 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7909 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7910 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7913 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7914 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7915 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7916 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7917 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7918 relay addresses has also been removed.
7920 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7922 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7923 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7924 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7926 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7927 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7928 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7929 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7930 processing applies to CR:
7932 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7933 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7935 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7936 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7937 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7938 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7940 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7941 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7942 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7944 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7945 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7946 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7947 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7948 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7949 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7952 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7955 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7956 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7957 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7958 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7961 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7963 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7965 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7967 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7968 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7969 not considered personal.
7971 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7973 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7975 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7977 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7978 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7979 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7980 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7981 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7982 header lines, and spool format errors.
7984 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7985 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7986 for more flexibility.
7988 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7989 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7990 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7992 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7995 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7996 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7997 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7998 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7999 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8000 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8001 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8002 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8003 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8005 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8006 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8007 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8008 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8009 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8010 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8011 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8013 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8014 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8015 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8017 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8018 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8019 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8020 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8021 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8022 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8023 instead of killing the process with assert().
8025 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8026 than Unicode encoding.
8028 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8029 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8030 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8031 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8033 77. Added process_log_path.
8035 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8036 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8038 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8039 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8041 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8042 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8043 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8045 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8046 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8047 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8048 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8049 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8052 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8053 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8056 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8057 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8058 they will be used during message reception.
8064 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.