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
259 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
260 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
261 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
263 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
265 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
266 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
269 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
270 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
271 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
273 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
275 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
277 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
278 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
279 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
281 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
282 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
283 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
285 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
286 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
288 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
289 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
292 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
293 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
294 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
295 should both provide the file and set the option.
296 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
298 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
299 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
301 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
302 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
303 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
304 Authentication-Results: header.
306 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
307 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
308 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
309 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
311 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
312 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
313 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
314 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
315 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
316 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
317 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
319 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
320 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
321 copies while it is still usable.
323 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
324 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
325 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
327 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
328 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
330 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
331 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
332 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
333 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
335 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
336 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
337 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
340 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
341 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
342 - the pipe transport command
343 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
344 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
346 - paths used by single-key lookups
347 Previously this was permitted.
349 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
350 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
351 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
352 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
354 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
355 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
356 support larger malloc requests.
358 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
359 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
360 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
361 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
363 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
364 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
365 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
366 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
369 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
370 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
371 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
372 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
373 data being length-specified.
375 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
376 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
377 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
378 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
380 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
381 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
382 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
383 not being properly tracked.
385 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
386 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
387 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
388 minute could be seen.
390 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
391 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
392 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
394 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
395 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
397 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
398 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
401 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
403 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
404 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
406 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
407 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
408 filesystem as sufficient validation.
410 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
411 argument is supplied.
413 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
414 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
415 access under Exim's current working directory.
417 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
418 Previously no event was raised.
420 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
421 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
422 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
425 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
426 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
427 the size of the signature hash.
429 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
430 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
432 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
433 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
434 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
435 dropped between messages.
437 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
438 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
439 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
440 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
442 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
443 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
444 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
445 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
446 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
447 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
448 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
449 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
450 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
452 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
453 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
454 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
456 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
457 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
464 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
465 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
467 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
468 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
471 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
474 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
476 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
478 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
479 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
481 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
482 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
483 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
484 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
485 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
486 suitably configured).
488 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
489 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
491 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
492 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
495 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
496 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
498 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
499 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
500 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
501 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
504 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
505 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
506 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
508 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
511 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
512 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
514 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
515 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
516 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
517 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
520 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
521 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
522 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
523 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
526 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
527 shared (NFS) environment.
529 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
530 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
533 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
534 on some platforms for bit 31.
536 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
537 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
538 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
539 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
540 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
541 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
542 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
543 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
545 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
547 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
548 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
550 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
551 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
554 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
555 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
558 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
559 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
560 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
563 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
564 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
565 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
567 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
568 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
569 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
570 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
571 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
573 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
576 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
577 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
578 be requested on all coneections.
580 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
581 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
583 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
585 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
586 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
587 one for these; the option was ignored.
589 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
590 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
591 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
592 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
594 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
595 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
596 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
599 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
600 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
601 error ignored was made.
603 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
605 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
606 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
607 values, to catch one form of exploit.
609 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
610 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
611 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
613 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
614 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
617 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
618 them in our smtp response.
620 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
621 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
622 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
623 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
624 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
626 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
627 link count into consideration.
629 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
630 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
632 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
633 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
634 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
637 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
639 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
641 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
643 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
644 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
645 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
646 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
648 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
650 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
651 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
654 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
655 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
656 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
658 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
659 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
660 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
662 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
663 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
664 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
665 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
666 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
667 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
668 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
669 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
671 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
672 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
673 resulted in an indefinite loop.
675 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
676 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
677 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
683 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
684 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
686 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
687 non-signal-safe functions being used.
689 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
690 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
691 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
693 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
694 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
695 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
697 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
698 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
699 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
700 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
701 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
704 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
705 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
707 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
708 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
709 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
710 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
711 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
712 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
713 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
715 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
716 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
718 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
721 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
722 Previously this would segfault.
724 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
727 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
728 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
729 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
730 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
731 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
732 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
734 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
736 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
737 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
738 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
739 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
741 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
743 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
744 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
745 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
746 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
748 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
750 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
752 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
753 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
754 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
756 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
757 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
758 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
760 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
762 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
763 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
764 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
765 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
767 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
768 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
769 promised '?' replacement.
771 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
773 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
774 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
775 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
776 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
777 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
779 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
780 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
781 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
783 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
784 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
785 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
787 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
788 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
789 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
791 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
792 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
793 hope that is portable enough.
795 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
796 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
797 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
798 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
800 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
801 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
802 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
804 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
805 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
806 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
807 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
809 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
810 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
812 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
813 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
814 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
815 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
817 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
818 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
819 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
821 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
822 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
823 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
824 the previous G, M, k.
826 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
827 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
830 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
831 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
832 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
833 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
835 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
836 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
838 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
839 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
840 off past the nul-terimation.
842 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
843 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
844 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
845 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
846 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
848 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
850 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
851 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
852 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
855 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
856 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
858 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
859 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
860 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
862 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
863 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
864 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
866 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
867 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
873 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
874 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
875 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
876 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
877 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
878 be defined in redis_servers.
880 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
881 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
883 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
884 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
885 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
886 extant use locations.
888 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
889 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
891 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
892 Previously only the last row was returned.
894 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
895 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
896 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
897 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
900 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
901 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
902 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
903 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
904 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
905 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
906 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
907 Main pool for expansions.
908 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
909 active in the testsuite.
910 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
912 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
913 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
914 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
915 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
918 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
919 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
922 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
923 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
924 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
926 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
927 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
928 ClamAV interface method is removed.
930 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
931 rows affected is given instead).
933 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
934 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
936 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
937 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
938 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
939 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
940 for all multi-message initiating connections.
942 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
943 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
944 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
946 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
947 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
948 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
949 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
952 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
953 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
954 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
957 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
959 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
960 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
962 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
963 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
964 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
966 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
967 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
968 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
971 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
972 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
974 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
975 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
976 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
978 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
979 for the build is renamed.
981 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
982 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
983 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
985 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
986 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
987 result replacing the original.
989 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
990 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
991 and the resources needed to be freed.
993 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
995 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
998 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
999 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1000 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1001 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1003 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1004 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1006 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1007 newer versions of the scanner.
1009 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1010 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1011 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1012 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1013 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1014 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1015 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1017 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1018 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1019 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1020 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1021 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1022 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1023 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1024 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1025 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1026 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1028 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1029 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1031 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1033 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1034 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1036 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1037 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1039 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1040 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1041 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1043 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1044 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1045 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1046 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1048 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1049 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1052 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1053 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1055 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1056 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1057 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1058 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1059 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1061 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1062 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1065 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1066 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1068 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1071 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1072 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1073 "bare" representation.
1075 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1076 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1077 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1078 corrupted the output.
1084 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1085 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1086 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1087 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1089 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1090 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1092 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1093 This permits better logging.
1095 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1096 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1097 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1098 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1099 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1100 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1102 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1103 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1106 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1107 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1108 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1110 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1111 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1113 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1114 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1115 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1116 client, there is no benefit for these.
1117 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1118 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1119 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1122 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1123 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1125 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1126 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1127 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1129 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1130 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1132 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1133 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1134 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1135 signature and again for transmission.
1137 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1138 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1139 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1141 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1142 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1143 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1144 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1145 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1146 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1147 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1149 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1150 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1151 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1152 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1154 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1155 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1156 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1157 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1158 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1159 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1162 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1163 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1164 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1165 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1168 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1169 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1170 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1171 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1174 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1175 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1178 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1179 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1180 banner-time rejection.
1182 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1185 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1186 is the name of a transport.
1189 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1191 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1192 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1194 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1195 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1196 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1199 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1200 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1201 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1202 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1204 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1205 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1206 initial verify call returned a defer.
1208 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1209 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1211 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1212 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1214 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1215 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1217 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1218 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1220 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1221 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1224 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1225 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1227 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1228 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1229 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1231 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1232 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1233 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1234 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1236 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1237 and confused the parent.
1239 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1240 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1242 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1245 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1246 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1247 out-of-order delivery.
1249 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1250 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1251 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1254 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1255 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1258 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1259 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1260 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1262 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1263 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1264 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1265 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1266 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1267 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1269 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1270 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1271 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1273 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1274 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1275 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1277 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1278 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1279 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1280 though a different problem.
1286 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1287 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1289 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1291 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1292 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1294 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1295 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1297 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1298 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1299 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1300 before acknowledging the chunk.
1302 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1303 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1304 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1306 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1307 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1308 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1311 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1312 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1313 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1315 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1316 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1318 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1319 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1320 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1321 body hash calculated value.
1323 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1324 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1325 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1327 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1329 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1330 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1332 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1333 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1334 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1336 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1337 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1338 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1339 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1340 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1341 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1343 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1344 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1345 past that check, despite the cost.
1347 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1348 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1349 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1351 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1352 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1353 TLS library to consume.
1355 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1357 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1359 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1360 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1361 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1362 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1363 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1364 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1365 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1367 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1369 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1371 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1372 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1373 should be warning-free.
1375 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1377 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1378 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1380 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1381 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1382 general solution here.
1384 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1385 already-broken messages in the queue.
1387 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1389 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1395 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1396 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1398 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1399 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1400 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1402 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1403 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1404 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1405 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1406 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1407 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1408 if one fails this test.
1409 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1410 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1412 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1413 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1415 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1416 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1418 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1419 in rewrites and routers.
1421 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1422 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1424 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1425 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1427 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1429 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1432 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1433 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1434 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1435 connection after a verify cache hit.
1436 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1438 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1439 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1441 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1442 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1443 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1444 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1445 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1447 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1448 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1450 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1451 Previously they were not counted.
1453 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1454 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1455 that needed the lookup.
1457 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1458 distinguished as "(=".
1460 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1461 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1463 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1465 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1466 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1468 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1469 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1471 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1472 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1475 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1476 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1477 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1478 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1480 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1482 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1483 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1484 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1486 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1487 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1488 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1491 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1492 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1493 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1496 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1497 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1498 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1500 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1501 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1504 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1506 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1507 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1509 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1510 are not in the system include path.
1512 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1513 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1514 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1515 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1517 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1518 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1519 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1521 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1523 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1524 an incoming connection.
1526 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1529 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1530 fallback to "prime256v1".
1532 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1533 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1539 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1540 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1541 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1542 client dropping the TLS connection.
1544 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1545 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1547 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1548 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1549 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1550 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1553 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1554 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1555 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1556 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1557 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1558 check on the next write.
1560 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1561 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1562 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1563 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1564 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1566 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1567 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1569 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1570 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1571 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1573 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1574 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1575 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1576 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1578 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1579 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1581 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1582 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1584 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1585 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1586 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1589 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1591 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1593 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1595 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1596 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1598 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1599 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1601 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1603 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1604 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1606 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1608 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1609 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1611 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1613 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1614 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1615 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1616 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1617 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1618 they will retry in-clear.
1619 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1620 at installation time.
1622 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1623 with the $config_file variable.
1625 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1626 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1627 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1628 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1629 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1631 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1632 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1633 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1634 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1635 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1637 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1639 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1640 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1641 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1642 list order is no longer honoured.
1644 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1645 for DKIM processing.
1647 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1648 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1650 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1651 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1652 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1653 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1655 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1656 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1658 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1659 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1661 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1662 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1664 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1666 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1667 cached by the daemon.
1669 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1670 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1672 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1673 keys are given for lookup.
1675 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1676 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1677 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1678 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1680 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1681 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1682 server-side so match that on older versions.
1684 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1685 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1686 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1688 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1689 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1691 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1692 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1693 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1694 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1695 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1696 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1697 initial truncated version.
1699 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1701 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1703 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1704 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1706 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1708 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1710 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1711 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1714 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1715 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1718 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1719 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1721 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1722 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1725 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1726 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1727 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1729 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1730 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1731 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1732 extraction. Accept either.
1738 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1741 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1743 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1746 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1747 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1748 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1749 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1751 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1752 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1753 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1755 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1756 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1757 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1760 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1763 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1764 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1765 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1766 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1767 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1769 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1770 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1771 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1773 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1775 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1776 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1778 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1779 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1781 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1784 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1785 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1787 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1788 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1789 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1791 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1792 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1793 specify a port-range.
1795 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1796 timeout value per server.
1798 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1799 now have the list separator specified.
1801 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1804 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1807 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1809 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1810 rather than the verbs used.
1812 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1813 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1815 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1817 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1818 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1820 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1821 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1823 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1824 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1826 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1828 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1830 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1831 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1832 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1833 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1835 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1837 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1838 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1840 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1841 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1843 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1845 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1847 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1849 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1850 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1852 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1853 added for tls authenticator.
1855 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1861 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1862 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1863 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1864 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1865 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1866 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1867 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1869 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1870 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1871 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1872 function when detected.
1874 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1875 cause callback expansion.
1877 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1878 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1879 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1880 instead of bool when processing it.
1882 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1883 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1885 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1887 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1889 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1891 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1892 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1894 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1895 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1896 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1897 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1898 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1899 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1901 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1902 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1905 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1906 version 3.3.6 or later.
1908 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1909 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1910 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1911 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1912 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1913 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1916 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1917 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1919 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1920 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1921 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1924 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1925 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1926 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1928 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1929 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1931 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1932 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1935 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1937 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1938 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1940 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1941 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1944 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1946 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1949 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1950 output list separator was used.
1955 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1956 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1959 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1960 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1962 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1964 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1965 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1971 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1973 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1974 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1975 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1976 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1977 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1978 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1980 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1981 utilities have not been installed.
1983 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1984 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1986 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1987 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1989 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1990 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1991 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1992 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1994 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1996 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1997 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1999 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2002 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2004 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2005 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2006 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2008 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2009 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2010 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2011 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2012 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2013 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2015 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2017 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2018 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2020 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2023 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2025 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2027 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2028 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2030 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2031 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2033 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2035 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2037 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2038 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2040 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2041 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2042 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2044 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2045 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2046 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2049 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2051 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2052 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2055 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2056 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2059 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2060 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2062 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2063 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2065 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2067 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2068 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2069 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2071 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2072 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2074 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2075 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2078 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2079 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2080 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2082 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2084 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2085 Christian Aistleitner.
2087 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2089 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2090 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2092 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2093 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2095 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2096 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2098 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2099 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2101 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2102 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2104 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2105 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2106 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2108 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2110 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2111 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2114 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2116 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2117 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2124 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2126 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2127 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2129 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2132 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2133 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2136 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2138 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2139 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2140 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2141 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2142 using channel bindings instead).
2144 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2145 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2146 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2147 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2148 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2151 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2153 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2155 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2156 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2158 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2159 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2160 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2162 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2164 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2166 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2167 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2169 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2171 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2173 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2175 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2176 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2178 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2180 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2181 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2184 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2185 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2187 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2188 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2191 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2193 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2195 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2196 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2198 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2201 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2202 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2204 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2205 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2207 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2209 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2211 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2214 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2217 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2219 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2220 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2221 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2222 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2224 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2226 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2227 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2228 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2229 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2232 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2233 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2234 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2236 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2237 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2238 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2239 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2241 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2242 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2243 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2244 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2245 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2246 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2247 delivery, as in LMTP.
2249 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2250 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2252 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2254 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2258 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2259 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2260 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2261 username as equal to the username.
2263 This change corrects that bug.
2265 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2266 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2267 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2269 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2271 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2272 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2273 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2274 NULL dereference and crash.
2276 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2278 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2279 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2280 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2282 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2284 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2285 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2286 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2287 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2288 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2289 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2290 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2291 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2292 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2293 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2294 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2296 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2297 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2299 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2300 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2303 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2304 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2305 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2306 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2307 an empty string is now equivalent.
2309 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2310 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2311 not performing validation itself.
2313 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2314 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2316 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2319 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2321 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2322 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2323 other false fix of the same issue.
2324 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2327 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2328 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2330 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2331 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2332 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2334 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2335 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2336 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2338 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2340 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2342 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2343 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2345 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2348 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2349 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2350 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2351 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2352 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2354 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2355 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2357 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2358 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2361 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2362 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2363 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2364 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2366 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2368 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2369 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2370 from multiple comments on this bug.
2372 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2374 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2375 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2378 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2379 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2381 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2382 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2388 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2390 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2396 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2397 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2398 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2400 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2402 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2405 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2407 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2409 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2411 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2412 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2414 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2415 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2417 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2418 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2420 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2421 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2422 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2424 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2426 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2427 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2429 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2431 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2433 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2434 non-compliant senders.
2435 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2437 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2438 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2439 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2441 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2442 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2443 in spool file corruption.
2445 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2446 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2447 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2450 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2451 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2452 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2454 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2455 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2457 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2459 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2461 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2463 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2464 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2465 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2467 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2468 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2469 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2470 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2472 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2473 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2475 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2476 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2477 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2478 resolver implementation change.
2480 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2481 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2483 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2485 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2487 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2488 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2490 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2491 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2493 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2494 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2496 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2497 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2498 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2499 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2500 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2502 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2504 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2505 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2506 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2508 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2510 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2511 read-only, out of scope).
2512 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2514 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2515 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2516 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2517 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2519 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2521 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2522 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2523 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2524 real issues in debug logging.
2526 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2527 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2529 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2530 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2531 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2533 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2534 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2535 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2538 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2539 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2541 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2542 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2543 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2544 needs to override this, it can.
2546 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2547 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2548 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2550 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2551 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2552 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2553 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2555 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2561 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2562 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2564 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2566 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2569 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2570 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2572 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2573 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2574 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2576 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2577 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2578 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2579 not safe for signals.
2581 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2582 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2583 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2584 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2587 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2589 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2590 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2591 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2592 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2593 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2595 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2596 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2597 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2598 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2599 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2600 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2602 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2603 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2604 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2605 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2607 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2608 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2609 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2610 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2612 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2613 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2614 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2615 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2616 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2617 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2618 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2619 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2620 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2622 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2623 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2624 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2625 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2627 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2628 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2629 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2630 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2631 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2632 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2633 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2634 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2635 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2636 details in the main documentation.
2638 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2640 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2642 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2643 repository when doing development or release builds.
2645 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2646 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2648 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2649 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2652 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2654 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2655 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2657 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2658 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2660 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2661 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2663 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2664 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2666 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2667 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2669 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2671 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2674 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2675 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2676 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2678 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2680 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2682 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2683 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2689 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2691 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2692 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2694 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2696 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2698 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2701 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2702 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2704 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2705 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2707 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2708 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2710 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2713 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2714 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2716 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2717 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2718 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2719 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2721 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2722 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2728 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2731 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2732 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2733 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2735 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2736 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2738 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2739 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2740 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2742 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2743 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2745 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2746 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2748 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2749 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2751 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2752 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2754 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2755 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2757 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2760 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2761 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2763 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2764 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2766 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2767 SQL string expansion failure details.
2768 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2770 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2771 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2773 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2774 extern declarations in function scope.
2775 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2777 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2778 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2779 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2782 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2783 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2785 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2786 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2788 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2789 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2791 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2792 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2794 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2795 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2798 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2800 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2802 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2803 Patch by Simon Arlott
2805 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2806 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2812 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2813 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2815 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2816 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2818 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2820 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2821 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2822 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2824 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2825 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2826 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2828 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2829 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2830 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2831 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2833 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2834 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2835 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2836 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2838 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2839 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2840 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2843 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2846 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2847 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2848 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2849 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2850 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2856 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2857 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2858 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2860 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2861 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2863 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2865 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2867 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2869 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2871 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2873 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2874 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2875 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2876 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2878 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2879 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2880 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2881 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2882 more caution in buffer sizes.
2884 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2886 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2888 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2890 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2892 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2894 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2896 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2898 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2899 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2900 ignore trailing whitespace.
2902 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2904 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2907 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2908 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2910 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2911 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2912 Notification from John Horne.
2914 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2917 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2918 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2921 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2924 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2925 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2926 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2928 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2929 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2930 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2933 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2934 option (effectively making it always true).
2936 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2937 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2939 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2940 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2942 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2943 run-time user, instead of root.
2945 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2946 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2948 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2949 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2952 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2953 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2954 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2956 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2958 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2964 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2965 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2968 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2969 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2972 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2973 Patch from Alain Williams
2975 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2977 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2978 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2980 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2981 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2983 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2985 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2987 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2988 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2990 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2992 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2994 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2995 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2996 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2998 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2999 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3001 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3002 Patch by Simon Arlott
3004 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3005 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3011 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3013 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3015 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3017 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3019 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3025 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3026 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3028 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3029 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3032 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3033 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3034 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3036 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3037 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3039 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3040 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3041 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3042 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3044 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3045 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3046 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3048 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3050 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3052 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3053 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3055 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3057 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3058 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3059 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3060 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3062 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3063 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3065 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3067 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3069 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3070 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3072 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3073 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3075 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3076 that they are available at delivery time.
3078 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3080 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3081 incoming_port log selectors.
3083 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3084 setting expands to an empty string.
3086 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3087 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3089 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3090 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3092 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3093 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3095 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3096 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3098 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3099 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3101 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3102 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3104 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3106 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3107 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3109 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3110 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3112 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3114 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3115 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3117 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3119 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3121 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3124 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3125 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3127 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3128 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3130 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3131 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3133 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3134 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3136 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3137 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3139 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3140 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3142 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3143 plus update to original patch.
3145 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3147 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3148 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3150 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3152 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3154 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3156 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3158 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3159 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3161 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3162 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3164 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3165 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3167 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3168 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3170 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3172 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3174 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3176 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3182 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3183 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3184 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3186 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3187 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3188 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3189 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3190 build errors in sieve.c.
3192 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3193 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3194 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3196 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3198 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3200 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3202 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3208 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3210 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3211 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3212 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3213 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3214 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3215 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3216 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3217 for iplsearch lookups.
3219 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3220 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3221 previously such lookups could never work.
3223 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3224 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3225 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3227 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3230 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3231 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3232 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3233 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3234 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3235 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3237 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3238 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3240 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3241 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3242 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3243 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3244 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3245 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3247 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3250 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3252 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3253 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3256 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3257 by clients under certain conditions.
3259 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3260 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3262 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3264 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3265 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3267 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3269 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3271 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3273 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3274 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3276 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3278 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3279 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3281 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3283 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3285 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3286 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3287 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3288 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3290 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3291 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3292 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3294 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3295 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3297 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3299 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3301 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3303 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3304 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3305 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3311 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3312 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3315 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3316 issue a MAIL command.
3318 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3320 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3322 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3323 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3324 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3325 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3326 item. This has been fixed.
3328 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3329 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3331 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3332 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3334 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3335 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3336 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3338 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3340 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3341 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3342 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3343 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3344 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3346 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3347 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3348 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3350 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3351 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3352 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3353 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3355 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3357 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3359 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3360 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3361 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3362 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3363 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3365 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3367 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3368 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3369 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3372 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3374 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3376 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3378 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3380 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3382 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3383 no_callout_flush is set.
3385 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3386 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3387 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3390 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3392 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3393 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3394 other ACL rejections are.
3396 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3397 with slight modification.
3399 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3400 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3402 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3403 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3406 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3407 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3409 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3411 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3412 expansion side effects.
3414 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3415 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3416 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3419 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3420 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3421 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3423 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3424 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3425 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3426 were accidentally chopped off.
3428 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3429 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3430 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3431 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3432 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3433 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3434 pipelining has not been advertised.
3436 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3438 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3439 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3440 This has been fixed.
3442 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3443 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3444 reported on Solaris.
3446 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3447 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3448 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3449 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3450 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3451 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3452 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3454 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3457 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3459 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3461 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3462 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3463 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3464 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3465 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3466 criteria to be more general.
3468 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3469 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3470 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3471 host_all_ignored option.
3473 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3474 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3475 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3476 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3477 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3478 is what is supposed to happen).
3480 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3481 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3482 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3483 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3484 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3487 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3488 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3489 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3490 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3491 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3492 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3495 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3497 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3498 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3500 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3501 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3503 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3505 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3507 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3508 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3509 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3510 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3511 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3512 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3513 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3514 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3515 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3516 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3517 least in a lot of common cases.
3519 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3520 advertised in response to EHLO.
3526 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3527 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3529 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3530 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3532 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3533 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3534 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3536 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3537 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3538 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3539 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3540 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3546 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3547 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3550 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3551 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3552 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3554 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3555 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3556 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3557 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3558 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3559 rather than extend the field.
3565 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3566 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3567 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3568 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3571 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3572 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3573 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3575 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3576 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3577 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3579 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3580 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3581 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3584 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3585 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3586 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3587 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3588 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3589 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3590 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3591 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3592 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3593 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3594 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3596 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3599 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3600 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3601 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3602 ignores EPIPE as well.
3604 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3605 (quoted-printable decoding).
3607 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3608 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3610 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3612 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3614 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3616 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3617 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3619 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3622 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3623 miscellaneous code fixes
3625 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3628 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3629 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3630 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3631 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3632 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3633 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3634 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3635 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3637 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3638 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3639 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3640 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3642 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3643 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3644 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3645 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3646 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3647 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3648 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3649 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3650 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3652 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3655 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3656 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3657 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3658 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3659 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3660 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3661 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3662 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3664 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3665 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3668 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3669 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3670 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3671 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3672 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3673 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3674 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3675 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3676 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3677 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3678 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3679 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3680 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3682 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3683 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3684 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3685 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3686 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3687 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3688 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3690 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3691 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3692 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3693 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3694 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3695 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3696 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3697 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3698 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3699 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3701 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3702 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3703 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3704 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3705 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3707 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3708 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3709 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3710 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3711 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3712 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3713 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3715 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3716 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3717 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3718 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3719 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3720 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3723 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3724 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3725 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3728 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3729 if any retry times were supplied.
3731 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3732 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3733 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3735 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3737 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3739 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3740 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3741 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3742 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3743 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3744 before) are ignored.
3746 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3747 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3749 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3750 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3751 committing the later change.]
3753 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3754 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3755 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3756 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3757 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3758 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3759 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3760 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3761 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3763 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3764 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3765 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3766 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3767 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3768 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3769 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3770 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3771 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3773 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3774 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3775 hammering the server.
3777 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3778 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3780 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3782 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3783 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3784 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3786 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3787 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3788 one case where this was not true.
3790 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3791 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3792 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3793 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3796 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3797 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3798 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3799 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3800 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3801 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3802 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3803 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3804 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3807 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3808 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3809 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3810 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3812 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3813 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3815 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3816 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3817 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3819 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3821 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3823 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3825 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3826 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3827 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3828 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3830 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3831 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3833 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3834 be meaningful with "accept".
3836 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3837 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3839 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3840 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3841 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3843 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3844 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3845 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3846 there is data to show.
3847 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3849 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3850 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3851 as well as the number of messages.
3853 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3854 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3855 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3857 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3858 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3859 have a flag are now skipped.
3861 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3862 Added the -emptyok flag.
3864 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3865 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3867 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3868 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3869 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3871 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3874 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3875 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3877 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3879 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3880 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3882 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3884 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3885 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3886 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3887 contravention of the specifications.
3889 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3890 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3891 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3893 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3894 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3895 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3897 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3899 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3900 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3901 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3902 some point in the past.
3904 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3905 transport during callout processing was broken.
3907 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3908 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3910 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3911 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3913 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3914 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3916 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3922 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3923 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3925 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3926 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3927 there is data to show.
3928 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3930 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3931 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3933 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3934 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3936 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3937 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3939 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3940 submissions from trusted users.
3942 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3943 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3945 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3946 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3947 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3948 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3949 there is now a framework to start from.
3951 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3952 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3953 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3955 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3957 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3959 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3961 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3962 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3963 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3965 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3968 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3969 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3970 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3972 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3973 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3974 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3977 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3978 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3979 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3980 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3981 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3983 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3984 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3986 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3988 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3989 operations in malware.c.
3991 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3994 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3995 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3996 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3999 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4000 statements to "add_header".
4002 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4003 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4005 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4006 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4009 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4013 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4014 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4015 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4018 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4019 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4021 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4022 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4024 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4025 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4026 any possible encoding problems.
4028 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4029 but not after initializing Perl.
4031 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4032 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4033 apparently, which is not desirable.
4035 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4038 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4041 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4043 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4044 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4045 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4046 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4048 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4049 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4050 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4052 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4053 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4054 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4057 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4058 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4059 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4060 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4061 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4067 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4068 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4070 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4073 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4074 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4075 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4076 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4077 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4078 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4079 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4080 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4083 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4085 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4086 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4087 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4089 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4090 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4091 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4094 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4095 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4097 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4098 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4099 option (which defaults to 0600).
4101 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4103 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4104 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4105 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4106 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4107 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4108 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4109 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4111 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4117 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4118 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4119 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4120 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4121 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4122 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4125 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4126 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4128 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4130 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4131 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4132 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4133 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4134 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4137 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4138 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4140 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4141 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4142 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4143 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4144 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4146 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4147 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4148 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4149 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4151 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4152 be the same on different OS.
4154 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4157 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4158 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4160 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4163 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4164 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4165 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4166 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4167 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4168 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4171 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4172 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4173 when Exim was called.
4175 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4176 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4178 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4179 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4180 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4181 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4183 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4184 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4185 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4186 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4189 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4190 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4191 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4193 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4194 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4195 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4197 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4200 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4201 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4202 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4203 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4204 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4205 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4206 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4207 values from the SRV records were lost.
4209 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4210 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4211 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4213 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4214 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4215 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4217 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4218 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4219 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4220 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4221 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4222 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4223 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4224 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4225 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4226 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4228 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4229 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4230 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4232 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4233 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4235 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4236 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4237 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4238 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4241 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4242 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4243 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4245 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4246 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4247 PH/23 above applies.
4249 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4250 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4251 (for which there is an explicit test).
4253 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4255 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4256 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4257 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4258 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4259 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4261 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4262 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4263 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4264 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4266 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4267 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4268 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4270 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4272 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4274 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4275 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4276 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4278 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4279 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4280 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4281 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4282 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4284 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4285 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4286 the message gets confusing).
4288 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4289 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4290 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4291 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4293 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4294 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4295 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4296 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4299 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4300 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4301 the different processes.
4303 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4305 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4307 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4308 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4310 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4311 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4313 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4314 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4315 messages matching specified criteria.
4317 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4319 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4320 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4322 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4323 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4324 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4325 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4326 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4327 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4328 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4329 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4330 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4331 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4333 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4334 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4335 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4337 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4339 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4340 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4341 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4342 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4343 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4344 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4345 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4348 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4349 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4351 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4353 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4355 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4357 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4358 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4359 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4360 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4361 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4362 size of the count of files.
4364 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4366 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4369 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4370 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4371 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4372 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4374 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4375 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4376 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4378 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4379 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4380 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4381 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4382 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4384 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4385 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4387 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4388 will now be deprecated.
4390 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4392 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4393 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4394 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4396 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4397 with very large, slow to parse queues
4399 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4401 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4403 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4404 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4405 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4408 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4409 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4410 Sieve code now uses this.
4412 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4413 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4415 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4416 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4418 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4420 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4421 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4422 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4423 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4424 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4426 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4427 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4428 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4429 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4431 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4433 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4435 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4436 is preferred over IPv4.
4438 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4439 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4440 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4441 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4442 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4443 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4444 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4446 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4447 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4448 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4450 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4452 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4453 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4454 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4455 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4456 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4457 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4458 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4459 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4460 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4461 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4462 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4464 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4465 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4466 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4472 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4474 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4475 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4477 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4478 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4479 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4481 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4483 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4486 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4489 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4490 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4491 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4494 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4495 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4497 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4498 inside the third argument.
4500 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4501 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4504 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4505 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4507 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4508 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4510 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4512 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4513 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4516 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4518 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4519 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4520 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4521 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4522 identical. For example:
4524 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4526 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4527 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4528 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4530 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4531 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4532 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4533 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4535 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4536 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4537 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4540 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4542 o fixes some comments
4543 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4544 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4545 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4546 and documents the missing references header update
4550 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4551 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4554 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4555 Electronic Mail") by including:
4557 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4559 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4560 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4561 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4562 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4563 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4565 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4567 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4569 The auto-replied keyword:
4571 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4572 message by an automatic process,
4574 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4576 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4577 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4579 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4580 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4583 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4584 to the default Received: header definition.
4586 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4588 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4589 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4590 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4592 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4593 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4594 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4596 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4597 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4598 and treats the condition as false.
4600 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4602 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4603 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4604 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4605 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4606 not changing the active code.
4608 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4609 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4611 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4612 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4614 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4617 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4618 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4619 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4620 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4621 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4622 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4623 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4624 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4625 the text comparison.
4627 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4628 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4629 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4630 The same fix has been applied.
4636 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4637 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4640 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4641 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4643 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4645 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4646 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4647 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4648 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4649 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4651 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4652 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4653 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4654 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4657 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4665 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4666 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4668 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4670 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4672 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4673 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4674 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4676 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4677 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4678 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4680 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4681 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4684 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4685 ${stat: expansion item.
4687 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4688 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4690 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4691 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4694 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4696 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4699 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4700 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4702 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4704 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4705 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4706 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4707 the end of the subprocess.
4709 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4710 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4711 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4712 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4713 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4715 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4717 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4719 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4720 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4722 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4724 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4726 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4727 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4730 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4732 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4733 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4734 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4736 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4737 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4739 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4740 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4742 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4743 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4745 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4746 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4748 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4749 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4750 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4751 contributed by a Radius user.
4753 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4754 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4756 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4757 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4759 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4762 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4763 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4766 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4767 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4768 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4769 header lines when this was not necessary.
4771 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4773 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4774 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4775 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4778 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4781 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4782 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4783 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4784 return code was incorrect.
4786 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4788 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4790 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4792 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4794 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4795 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4796 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4797 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4798 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4801 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4803 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4804 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4805 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4806 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4807 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4808 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4809 which is clearly wrong.
4811 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4813 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4814 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4815 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4818 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4819 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4821 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4823 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4824 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4826 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4827 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4829 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4830 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4832 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4833 recipients, not senders.
4835 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4836 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4838 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4840 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4842 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4843 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4844 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4845 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4847 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4849 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4850 clock is set back in time.
4852 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4853 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4855 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4856 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4858 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4859 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4862 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4863 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4866 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4869 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4871 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4872 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4873 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4875 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4876 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4877 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4878 helo verification defer as a failure.
4880 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4881 actual error message.
4887 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4889 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4890 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4891 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4892 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4894 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4896 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4897 can still be requested.
4899 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4900 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4901 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4902 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4904 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4905 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4906 circumstances, but probably never did.
4908 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4909 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4910 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4913 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4915 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4916 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4918 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4920 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4922 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4923 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4924 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4925 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4926 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4927 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4929 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4930 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4931 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4932 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4933 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4934 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4936 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4937 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4939 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4940 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4942 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4943 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4945 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4947 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4949 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4951 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4953 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4955 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4957 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4959 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4960 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4961 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4963 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4964 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4965 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4966 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4968 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4969 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4970 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4972 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4973 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4974 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4975 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4977 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4978 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4981 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4982 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4983 should work with maildirs and everything.
4985 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4986 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4988 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4991 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4992 function for BDB 4.3.
4994 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4996 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4997 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5000 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5001 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5002 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5003 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5004 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5005 formatting function string_vformat().
5007 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5008 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5009 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5010 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5011 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5012 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5013 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5014 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5016 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5017 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5020 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5021 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5023 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5024 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5025 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5026 test. It is now used for both.
5028 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5029 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5030 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5031 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5032 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5033 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5035 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5036 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5037 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5040 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5041 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5042 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5044 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5045 experimental DomainKeys support:
5047 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5048 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5049 the control was given.
5051 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5053 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5055 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5057 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5058 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5059 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5062 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5063 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5064 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5065 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5066 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5067 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5070 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5071 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5072 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5073 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5074 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5075 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5077 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5078 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5079 do -d+all out of habit.
5081 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5082 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5085 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5086 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5087 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5088 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5089 record types that Exim uses.
5091 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5092 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5093 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5094 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5095 non-existent file that was broken.
5097 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5098 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5100 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5101 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5102 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5104 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5106 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5107 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5108 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5109 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5110 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5113 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5114 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5115 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5116 at a slight CPU cost.
5118 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5119 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5121 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5124 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5126 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5127 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5133 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5134 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5136 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5138 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5140 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5141 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5143 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5144 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5145 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5146 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5147 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5148 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5151 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5152 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5153 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5154 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5157 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5158 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5159 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5160 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5161 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5162 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5163 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5166 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5167 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5169 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5170 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5171 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5172 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5173 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5174 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5176 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5177 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5178 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5179 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5181 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5184 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5185 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5187 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5188 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5189 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5190 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5193 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5195 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5196 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5198 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5199 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5200 to what was transported.)
5202 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5204 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5205 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5206 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5207 spamd_address settings.
5209 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5210 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5211 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5212 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5213 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5215 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5217 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5218 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5219 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5220 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5221 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5223 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5224 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5226 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5227 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5228 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5229 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5230 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5231 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5232 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5235 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5236 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5237 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5238 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5239 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5240 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5241 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5244 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5246 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5247 driver and ACL definitions.
5249 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5250 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5252 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5253 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5254 understands it better than I do:
5256 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5257 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5259 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5260 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5261 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5262 => three warnings about OTP not working
5263 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5265 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5266 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5267 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5268 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5270 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5271 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5273 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5274 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5275 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5277 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5278 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5281 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5282 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5285 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5286 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5287 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5289 warn !verify = sender
5290 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5292 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5293 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5295 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5297 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5298 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5300 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5301 nomenclature these days.)
5303 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5304 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5306 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5307 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5308 . First host does not offer TLS;
5309 . First host accepts first address;
5310 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5311 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5312 . Second host accepts second address.
5313 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5314 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5317 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5318 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5319 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5320 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5321 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5323 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5324 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5326 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5327 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5329 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5330 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5331 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5333 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5334 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5337 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5339 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5340 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5341 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5342 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5343 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5344 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5345 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5347 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5348 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5349 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5350 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5351 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5353 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5354 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5357 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5358 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5359 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5360 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5361 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5362 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5364 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5366 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5367 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5368 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5369 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5370 printable escape sequences.
5372 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5373 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5376 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5377 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5380 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5381 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5382 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5383 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5384 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5386 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5387 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5388 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5390 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5392 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5393 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5396 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5397 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5398 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5399 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5400 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5401 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5402 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5403 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5404 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5407 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5408 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5409 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5410 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5414 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5415 ----------------------------------------
5417 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5418 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5419 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5420 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5421 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5422 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5425 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5426 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5427 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5428 historical information.
5434 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5436 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5437 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5439 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5440 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5443 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5444 filter fails to execute.
5446 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5447 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5448 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5449 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5450 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5452 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5454 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5455 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5456 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5457 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5459 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5460 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5461 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5462 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5463 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5465 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5467 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5469 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5470 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5471 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5472 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5474 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5475 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5476 sender verification.
5478 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5479 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5481 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5483 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5486 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5487 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5489 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5490 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5492 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5493 information about exactly what failed.
5495 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5497 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5498 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5499 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5501 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5502 It is now set to "smtps".
5504 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5505 ignore_target_hosts.
5507 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5508 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5509 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5510 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5513 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5514 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5515 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5517 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5518 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5519 wake it up if nothing else does.
5521 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5522 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5523 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5526 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5527 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5529 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5531 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5532 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5533 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5534 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5535 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5536 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5537 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5538 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5540 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5541 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5542 than one IP address.
5544 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5545 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5546 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5547 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5549 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5550 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5551 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5552 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5553 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5556 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5557 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5558 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5559 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5561 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5562 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5565 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5566 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5567 $sender_host_address.
5569 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5570 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5571 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5572 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5573 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5576 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5578 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5579 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5581 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5582 just the host names, not the priorities.
5584 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5585 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5586 controlled by a keyword.
5588 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5589 multiple records are returned.
5591 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5592 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5595 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5597 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5598 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5600 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5601 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5602 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5604 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5606 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5608 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5610 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5611 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5612 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5613 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5614 because the tests only now provoked it.
5616 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5617 (this can affect the format of dates).
5619 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5620 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5621 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5622 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5624 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5626 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5627 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5628 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5629 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5631 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5632 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5633 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5635 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5638 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5639 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5640 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5641 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5642 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5643 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5646 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5647 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5648 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5651 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5652 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5653 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5655 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5656 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5657 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5658 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5659 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5660 so I produce this patch..."
5662 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5663 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5666 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5667 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5668 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5669 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5672 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5674 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5675 long debug lines gets shown.
5677 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5678 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5680 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5682 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5683 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5684 of $primary_hostname.
5686 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5687 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5688 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5689 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5690 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5691 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5692 by change 4.50/55 above.
5694 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5695 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5696 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5697 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5698 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5699 running as the user.
5702 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5703 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5704 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5707 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5708 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5710 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5711 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5712 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5713 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5714 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5716 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5717 This has been fixed.
5719 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5720 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5721 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5722 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5725 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5727 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5728 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5729 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5730 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5732 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5733 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5735 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5736 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5737 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5739 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5740 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5741 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5744 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5745 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5746 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5748 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5749 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5750 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5751 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5753 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5754 during host lookups.
5756 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5757 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5759 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5761 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5762 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5763 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5764 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5765 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5768 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5769 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5771 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5772 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5773 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5775 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5777 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5778 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5779 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5780 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5781 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5782 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5785 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5786 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5787 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5788 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5789 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5791 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5794 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5796 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5797 "vacation" handling.
5799 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5800 OS variants using glibc.
5802 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5805 ----------------------------------------------------
5806 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5807 ----------------------------------------------------
5813 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5814 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5817 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5818 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5821 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5822 filter fails to execute.
5824 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5825 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5826 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5827 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5828 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5830 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5831 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5832 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5833 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5835 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5836 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5837 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5838 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5839 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5841 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5843 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5844 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5845 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5846 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5848 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5849 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5850 sender verification.
5852 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5853 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5855 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5856 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5858 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5859 ignore_target_hosts.
5861 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5862 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5863 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5864 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5867 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5868 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5869 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5871 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5872 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5873 wake it up if nothing else does.
5875 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5876 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5877 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5880 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5881 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5883 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5885 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5886 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5889 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5890 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5893 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5894 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5895 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5896 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5897 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5900 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5901 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5904 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5905 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5906 $sender_host_address.
5908 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5910 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5911 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5912 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5914 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5917 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5918 (this can affect the format of dates).
5920 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5921 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5922 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5923 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5925 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5926 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5927 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5929 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5930 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5931 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5932 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5934 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5935 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5936 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5938 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5941 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5942 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5943 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5944 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5945 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5946 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5949 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5950 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5951 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5952 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5955 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5956 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5957 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5958 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5959 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5960 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5961 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5963 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5964 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5965 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5966 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5967 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5968 running as the user.
5971 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5972 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5973 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5976 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5977 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5978 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5979 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5980 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5982 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5983 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5984 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5985 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5988 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5989 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5990 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5991 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5992 because the tests only now provoked it.
5998 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5999 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6000 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6001 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6002 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6003 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6004 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6006 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6007 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6010 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6012 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6014 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6015 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6018 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6019 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6020 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6021 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6022 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6024 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6025 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6027 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6029 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6031 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6034 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6035 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6037 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6038 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6039 affecting debugging statements).
6041 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6043 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6044 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6045 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6046 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6047 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6048 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6049 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6050 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6051 after the received time, and all would be well.
6053 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6054 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6055 condition in an expansion string.
6057 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6059 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6060 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6061 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6062 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6063 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6064 job under whatever limits there are.
6066 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6068 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6071 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6072 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6073 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6074 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6077 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6078 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6079 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6080 binary data in such strings.
6082 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6084 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6085 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6086 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6087 failure, which is pointless.
6089 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6091 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6093 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6094 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6095 Sender: header lines.
6097 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6098 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6099 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6101 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6102 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6103 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6104 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6105 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6108 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6109 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6110 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6111 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6112 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6114 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6115 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6116 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6119 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6120 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6122 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6123 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6125 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6127 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6129 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6131 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6134 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6136 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6138 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6139 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6140 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6141 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6143 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6144 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6150 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6151 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6152 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6154 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6155 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6156 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6157 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6158 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6159 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6161 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6162 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6163 verification failure".
6165 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6166 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6167 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6168 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6170 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6171 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6172 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6173 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6174 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6175 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6176 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6177 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6178 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6179 treated as a timeout.
6181 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6182 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6183 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6184 not set for Exim filters).
6186 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6187 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6188 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6190 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6192 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6193 try to make them clearer.
6195 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6196 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6198 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6200 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6202 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6203 only the Cygwin environment.
6205 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6206 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6207 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6208 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6209 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6211 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6212 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6213 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6214 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6215 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6216 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6217 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6219 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6220 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6222 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6224 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6225 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6226 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6228 To: susanne@some.where
6230 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6231 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6232 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6233 of addresses in From: header lines).
6235 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6236 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6237 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6239 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6240 treated as non-personal.
6242 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6243 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6245 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6247 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6249 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6250 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6251 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6253 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6254 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6256 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6257 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6258 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6259 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6260 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6261 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6263 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6264 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6265 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6266 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6267 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6268 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6269 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6270 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6272 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6274 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6275 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6277 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6278 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6279 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6281 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6282 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6284 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6285 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6286 rather than long int.
6288 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6290 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6296 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6297 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6298 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6299 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6300 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6301 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6307 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6308 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6310 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6311 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6312 socklen_t is defined.
6314 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6317 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6320 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6321 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6322 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6323 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6324 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6326 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6327 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6328 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6329 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6331 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6332 of flapping under certain conditions.
6334 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6335 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6336 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6338 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6340 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6342 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6343 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6344 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6345 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6347 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6348 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6349 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6350 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6351 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6352 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6353 preserved with the message after it was received.
6355 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6356 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6357 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6358 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6359 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6360 test suite worked just fine.
6362 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6363 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6364 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6366 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6367 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6370 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6371 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6372 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6373 does not fully solve it.
6375 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6376 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6377 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6378 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6379 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6381 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6382 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6383 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6385 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6386 string, for example:
6388 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6390 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6391 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6392 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6393 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6394 the routers could not see them.
6396 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6397 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6399 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6400 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6403 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6404 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6405 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6406 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6407 that needed quoting.
6409 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6410 was not being matched caselessly.
6412 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6415 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6416 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6417 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6418 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6419 when use_sender is false.
6421 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6423 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6425 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6427 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6428 the configuration file.
6430 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6431 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6433 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6435 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6436 bytes in the message body.
6438 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6439 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6442 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6444 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6446 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6447 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6448 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6449 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6456 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6457 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6459 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6460 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6461 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6462 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6463 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6465 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6466 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6468 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6469 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6470 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6472 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6473 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6474 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6476 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6479 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6480 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6481 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6482 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6483 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6484 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6485 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6491 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6492 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6493 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6494 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6495 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6496 default (and expected) setting.
6498 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6499 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6500 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6501 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6503 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6504 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6506 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6509 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6510 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6511 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6512 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6513 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6514 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6516 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6517 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6518 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6520 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6521 part (NOT match_host).
6523 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6525 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6526 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6527 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6528 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6529 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6530 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6531 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6532 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6533 the same named file.
6535 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6536 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6539 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6540 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6541 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6542 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6545 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6546 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6547 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6549 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6551 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6553 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6555 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6556 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6558 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6559 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6560 before starting the TLS session.
6562 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6564 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6565 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6567 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6568 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6569 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6570 colon in the middle).
6576 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6577 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6578 multiple configurations are in use.
6580 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6581 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6582 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6583 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6584 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6585 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6587 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6588 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6590 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6591 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6592 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6594 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6595 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6598 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6599 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6601 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6603 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6604 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6606 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6614 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6615 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6616 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6617 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6618 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6620 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6623 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6624 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6625 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6626 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6627 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6628 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6630 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6631 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6632 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6633 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6634 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6635 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6636 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6639 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6640 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6641 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6642 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6643 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6645 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6647 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6648 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6649 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6651 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6653 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6654 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6655 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6658 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6659 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6661 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6662 Three changes have been made:
6664 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6665 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6666 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6667 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6668 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6670 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6673 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6674 the modified behaviour.
6680 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6683 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6684 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6686 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6687 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6688 try to track down a specific problem.
6690 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6691 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6692 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6694 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6697 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6698 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6699 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6700 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6701 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6702 some earlier ones do not.
6704 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6706 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6707 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6708 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6709 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6710 address literals are enabled, of course).
6712 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6714 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6715 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6716 by a command such as
6720 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6722 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6724 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6725 remained set. It is now erased.
6727 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6728 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6730 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6731 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6732 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6733 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6734 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6735 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6736 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6737 appropriate error code.
6739 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6740 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6741 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6742 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6743 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6744 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6746 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6747 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6748 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6750 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6751 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6752 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6753 terminate the header.
6755 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6756 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6757 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6759 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6760 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6761 (4.30/29). In particular:
6763 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6766 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6767 to write a maildirsize file.
6769 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6770 the transport, the new value overrides.
6772 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6775 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6776 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6777 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6780 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6781 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6782 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6785 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6786 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6787 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6789 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6790 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6793 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6794 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6795 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6797 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6799 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6801 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6803 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6804 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6807 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6808 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6809 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6810 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6811 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6812 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6813 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6816 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6817 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6818 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6819 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6820 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6823 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6824 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6825 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6826 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6827 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6828 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6829 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6830 cached value only when the same options are set.
6832 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6834 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6835 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6836 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6837 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6838 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6840 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6841 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6842 it is clearly obsolete.
6844 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6847 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6848 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6849 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6852 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6853 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6854 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6855 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6856 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6858 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6859 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6860 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6861 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6863 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6865 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6867 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6868 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6871 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6872 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6873 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6874 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6875 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6876 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6879 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6880 with the -f command-line option.
6882 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6883 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6884 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6885 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6886 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6887 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6889 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6890 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6893 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6894 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6895 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6896 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6897 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6898 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6899 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6900 buffer is too small.
6902 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6903 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6905 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6906 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6907 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6908 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6909 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6910 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6911 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6912 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6913 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6915 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6916 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6917 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6919 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6920 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6923 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6924 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6925 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6926 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6927 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6929 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6930 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6931 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6932 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6935 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6937 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6939 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6940 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6942 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6943 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6944 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6946 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6947 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6948 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6949 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6950 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6952 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6953 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6954 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6955 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6956 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6957 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6958 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6960 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6961 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6962 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6963 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6964 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6965 the test of how many are available.
6967 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6968 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6969 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6970 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6971 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6972 new message is started.
6974 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6975 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6977 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6978 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6980 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6981 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6982 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6985 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6986 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6987 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6988 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6989 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6990 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6991 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6993 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6994 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6995 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6996 interpreted as octal.
6998 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7001 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7002 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7003 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7004 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7005 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7006 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7008 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7009 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7010 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7011 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7013 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7014 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7015 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7016 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7018 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7019 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7022 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7023 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7025 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7027 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7028 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7029 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7030 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7032 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7033 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7034 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7035 supplied", which is not helpful.
7037 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7038 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7039 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7041 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7042 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7043 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7044 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7045 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7046 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7047 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7048 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7050 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7051 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7052 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7053 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7054 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7056 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7057 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7058 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7059 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7060 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7061 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7063 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7064 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7065 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7067 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7069 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7070 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7071 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7074 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7076 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7077 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7078 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7079 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7080 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7081 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7082 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7083 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7085 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7086 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7087 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7088 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7089 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7091 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7094 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7095 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7096 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7097 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7098 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7099 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7100 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7101 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7102 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7108 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7109 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7110 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7112 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7115 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7116 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7117 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7119 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7120 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7121 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7122 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7123 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7124 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7126 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7127 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7128 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7129 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7130 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7131 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7132 the Exim test suite.
7134 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7135 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7136 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7137 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7139 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7140 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7141 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7142 specify it in this variable.
7144 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7145 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7146 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7147 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7149 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7150 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7151 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7152 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7154 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7155 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7156 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7157 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7158 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7160 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7162 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7165 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7166 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7167 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7168 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7169 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7171 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7172 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7174 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7175 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7176 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7177 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7178 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7180 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7181 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7183 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7184 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7185 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7187 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7188 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7190 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7191 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7193 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7194 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7195 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7197 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7198 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7200 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7201 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7202 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7203 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7205 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7207 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7208 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7209 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7210 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7212 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7214 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7215 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7217 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7219 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7220 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7221 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7222 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7223 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7224 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7226 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7228 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7229 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7232 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7234 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7235 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7237 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7238 550 Sender verify failed
7240 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7241 the final line of the response.
7243 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7244 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7245 all other user lookups.
7247 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7250 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7251 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7252 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7253 result into an int without checking.
7255 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7256 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7257 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7259 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7260 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7261 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7262 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7264 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7267 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7268 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7270 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7271 to the empty sender.
7273 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7274 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7275 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7276 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7277 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7278 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7279 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7282 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7283 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7284 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7285 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7288 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7289 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7291 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7294 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7295 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7297 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7299 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7300 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7303 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7304 as soon as it is encountered.
7306 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7308 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7311 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7312 recognizes a tab character.
7314 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7315 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7316 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7317 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7319 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7321 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7324 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7326 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7328 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7329 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7332 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7333 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7334 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7335 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7336 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7338 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7339 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7341 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7342 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7343 list (.included file names were always shown).
7345 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7346 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7347 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7350 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7351 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7353 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7355 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7357 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7359 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7360 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7361 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7362 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7363 failures to open the logs.
7365 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7366 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7367 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7368 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7369 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7370 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7371 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7377 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7378 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7379 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7382 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7383 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7384 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7386 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7387 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7388 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7390 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7391 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7392 causing some misleading effects.
7394 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7395 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7396 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7398 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7399 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7400 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7401 queue-runner function directly.
7407 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7410 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7411 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7412 was always written to the default place.
7414 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7415 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7416 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7418 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7420 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7422 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7423 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7424 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7426 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7427 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7430 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7431 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7432 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7434 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7435 command line option is disabled.
7437 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7438 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7440 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7442 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7444 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7445 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7447 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7449 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7450 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7451 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7452 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7453 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7454 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7456 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7457 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7460 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7461 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7463 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7464 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7466 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7467 received was valid base64.
7469 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7470 name of the variable that was being set.
7472 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7474 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7475 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7476 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7477 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7478 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7479 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7481 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7483 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7484 nor realm was specified.
7486 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7487 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7488 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7489 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7491 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7492 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7493 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7495 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7496 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7497 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7499 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7500 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7501 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7502 some systems use these upper case variants.
7504 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7505 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7506 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7507 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7509 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7511 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7512 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7514 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7515 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7518 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7520 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7521 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7522 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7523 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7525 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7528 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7529 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7530 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7532 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7533 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7535 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7536 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7537 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7538 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7540 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7541 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7542 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7544 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7546 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7547 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7548 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7549 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7552 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7553 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7554 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7556 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7558 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7559 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7561 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7562 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7564 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7565 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7566 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7567 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7568 when emails are that large.
7575 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7576 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7578 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7579 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7580 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7582 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7583 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7584 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7586 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7587 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7588 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7589 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7590 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7592 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7593 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7594 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7595 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7596 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7599 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7600 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7601 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7602 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7603 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7604 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7605 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7606 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7607 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7608 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7609 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7610 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7611 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7612 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7614 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7615 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7618 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7619 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7620 error should be diagnosed.
7622 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7623 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7624 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7625 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7626 appeared instead of "NULL".
7628 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7629 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7630 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7631 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7632 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7633 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7636 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7637 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7638 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7644 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7645 or receiver verification errors.
7647 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7650 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7651 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7652 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7653 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7655 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7656 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7657 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7658 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7659 shouldn't happen again.
7661 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7662 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7663 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7665 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7666 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7668 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7670 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7671 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7673 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7674 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7677 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7678 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7679 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7681 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7682 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7683 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7684 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7686 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7687 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7688 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7689 to define what should happen).
7691 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7692 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7693 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7695 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7697 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7699 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7700 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7702 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7703 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7704 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7705 structure in all cases.
7707 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7708 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7709 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7710 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7712 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7713 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7716 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7717 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7719 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7720 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7722 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7723 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7724 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7726 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7727 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7728 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7730 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7731 the book and for uniformity.
7733 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7735 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7736 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7737 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7738 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7739 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7740 non-existent command as the problem.
7742 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7743 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7744 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7746 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7748 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7749 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7750 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7752 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7753 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7754 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7755 timestamps using strftime().
7757 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7758 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7760 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7761 transport-time rewrites.
7763 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7764 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7765 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7766 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7768 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7769 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7771 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7772 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7773 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7774 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7777 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7778 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7779 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7780 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7781 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7782 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7783 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7785 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7786 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7787 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7788 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7789 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7791 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7792 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7793 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7794 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7795 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7796 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7797 remaining text gets split now.
7799 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7800 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7801 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7802 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7804 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7805 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7806 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7807 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7810 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7811 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7812 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7813 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7814 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7815 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7816 passed through if needed.
7818 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7819 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7820 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7821 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7822 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7823 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7825 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7826 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7827 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7828 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7829 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7831 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7832 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7833 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7834 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7835 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7837 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7838 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7841 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7842 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7843 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7844 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7845 mayhem of various kinds.
7847 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7848 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7849 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7850 the right test for positive values.
7852 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7853 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7854 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7855 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7856 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7857 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7858 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7859 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7860 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7861 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7864 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7867 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7868 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7871 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7872 the existing equality matching.
7874 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7875 dealing with inode numbers.
7877 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7878 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7879 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7881 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7882 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7883 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7884 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7887 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7888 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7889 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7890 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7891 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7892 relay addresses has also been removed.
7894 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7896 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7897 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7898 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7900 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7901 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7902 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7903 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7904 processing applies to CR:
7906 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7907 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7909 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7910 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7911 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7912 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7914 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7915 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7916 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7918 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7919 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7920 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7921 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7922 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7923 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7926 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7929 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7930 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7931 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7932 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7935 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7937 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7939 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7941 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7942 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7943 not considered personal.
7945 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7947 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7949 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7951 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7952 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7953 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7954 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7955 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7956 header lines, and spool format errors.
7958 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7959 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7960 for more flexibility.
7962 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7963 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7964 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7966 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7969 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7970 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7971 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7972 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7973 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7974 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7975 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7976 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7977 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7979 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7980 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7981 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7982 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7983 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7984 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7985 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7987 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7988 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7989 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7991 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7992 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7993 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7994 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7995 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7996 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7997 instead of killing the process with assert().
7999 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8000 than Unicode encoding.
8002 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8003 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8004 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8005 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8007 77. Added process_log_path.
8009 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8010 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8012 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8013 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8015 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8016 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8017 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8019 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8020 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8021 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8022 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8023 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8026 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8027 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8030 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8031 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8032 they will be used during message reception.
8038 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.