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.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enformance trap. Fix by using dynamically
18 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
19 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
20 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
22 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
24 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
25 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
28 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
29 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
30 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
32 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
34 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
36 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
37 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
38 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
40 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
41 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
42 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
44 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
45 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
47 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
48 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
51 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
52 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
53 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
54 should both provide the file and set the option.
55 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
57 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
58 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
60 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
61 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
62 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
63 Authentication-Results: header.
65 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
66 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
67 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
68 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
70 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
71 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
72 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
73 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
74 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
75 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
76 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
78 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
79 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
80 copies while it is still usable.
82 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
83 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
84 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
86 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
87 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
89 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
90 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
91 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
92 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
94 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
95 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
96 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
99 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
100 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
101 - the pipe transport command
102 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
103 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
105 - paths used by single-key lookups
106 Previously this was permitted.
108 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
109 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
110 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
111 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
113 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
114 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
115 support larger malloc requests.
117 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
118 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
119 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
120 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
122 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
123 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
124 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
125 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
128 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
129 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
130 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
131 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
132 data being length-specified.
134 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
135 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
136 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
137 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
139 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
140 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
141 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
142 not being properly tracked.
144 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
145 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
146 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
147 minute could be seen.
149 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
150 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
151 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
153 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
154 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
156 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
157 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
160 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
162 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
163 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
165 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
166 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
167 filesystem as sufficient validation.
169 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
170 argument is supplied.
172 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
173 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
174 access under Exim's current working directory.
176 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
177 Previously no event was raised.
179 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
180 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
181 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
184 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
185 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
186 the size of the signature hash.
188 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
189 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
191 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
192 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
193 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
194 dropped between messages.
196 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
197 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
198 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
199 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
201 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
202 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
203 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
204 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
205 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
206 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
207 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
208 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
209 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
211 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
212 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
213 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
215 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
216 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
223 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
224 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
226 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
227 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
230 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
233 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
235 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
237 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
238 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
240 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
241 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
242 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
243 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
244 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
245 suitably configured).
247 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
248 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
250 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
251 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
254 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
255 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
257 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
258 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
259 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
260 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
263 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
264 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
265 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
267 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
270 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
271 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
273 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
274 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
275 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
276 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
279 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
280 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
281 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
282 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
285 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
286 shared (NFS) environment.
288 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
289 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
292 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
293 on some platforms for bit 31.
295 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
296 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
297 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
298 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
299 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
300 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
301 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
302 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
304 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
306 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
307 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
309 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
310 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
313 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
314 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
317 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
318 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
319 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
322 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
323 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
324 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
326 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
327 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
328 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
329 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
330 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
332 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
335 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
336 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
337 be requested on all coneections.
339 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
340 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
342 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
344 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
345 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
346 one for these; the option was ignored.
348 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
349 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
350 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
351 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
353 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
354 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
355 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
358 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
359 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
360 error ignored was made.
362 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
364 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
365 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
366 values, to catch one form of exploit.
368 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
369 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
370 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
372 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
373 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
376 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
377 them in our smtp response.
379 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
380 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
381 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
382 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
383 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
385 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
386 link count into consideration.
388 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
389 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
391 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
392 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
393 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
396 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
398 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
400 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
402 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
403 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
404 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
405 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
407 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
409 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
410 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
413 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
414 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
415 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
417 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
418 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
419 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
421 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
422 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
423 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
424 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
425 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
426 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
427 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
428 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
430 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
431 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
432 resulted in an indefinite loop.
434 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
435 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
436 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
442 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
443 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
445 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
446 non-signal-safe functions being used.
448 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
449 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
450 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
452 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
453 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
454 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
456 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
457 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
458 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
459 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
460 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
463 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
464 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
466 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
467 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
468 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
469 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
470 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
471 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
472 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
474 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
475 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
477 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
480 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
481 Previously this would segfault.
483 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
486 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
487 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
488 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
489 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
490 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
491 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
493 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
495 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
496 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
497 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
498 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
500 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
502 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
503 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
504 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
505 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
507 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
509 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
511 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
512 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
513 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
515 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
516 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
517 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
519 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
521 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
522 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
523 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
524 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
526 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
527 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
528 promised '?' replacement.
530 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
532 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
533 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
534 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
535 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
536 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
538 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
539 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
540 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
542 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
543 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
544 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
546 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
547 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
548 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
550 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
551 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
552 hope that is portable enough.
554 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
555 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
556 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
557 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
559 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
560 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
561 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
563 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
564 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
565 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
566 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
568 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
569 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
571 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
572 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
573 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
574 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
576 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
577 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
578 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
580 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
581 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
582 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
583 the previous G, M, k.
585 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
586 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
589 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
590 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
591 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
592 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
594 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
595 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
597 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
598 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
599 off past the nul-terimation.
601 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
602 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
603 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
604 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
605 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
607 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
609 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
610 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
611 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
614 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
615 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
617 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
618 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
619 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
621 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
622 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
623 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
625 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
626 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
632 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
633 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
634 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
635 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
636 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
637 be defined in redis_servers.
639 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
640 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
642 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
643 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
644 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
645 extant use locations.
647 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
648 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
650 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
651 Previously only the last row was returned.
653 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
654 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
655 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
656 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
659 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
660 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
661 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
662 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
663 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
664 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
665 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
666 Main pool for expansions.
667 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
668 active in the testsuite.
669 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
671 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
672 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
673 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
674 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
677 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
678 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
681 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
682 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
683 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
685 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
686 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
687 ClamAV interface method is removed.
689 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
690 rows affected is given instead).
692 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
693 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
695 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
696 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
697 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
698 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
699 for all multi-message initiating connections.
701 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
702 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
703 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
705 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
706 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
707 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
708 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
711 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
712 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
713 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
716 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
718 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
719 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
721 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
722 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
723 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
725 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
726 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
727 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
730 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
731 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
733 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
734 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
735 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
737 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
738 for the build is renamed.
740 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
741 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
742 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
744 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
745 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
746 result replacing the original.
748 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
749 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
750 and the resources needed to be freed.
752 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
754 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
757 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
758 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
759 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
760 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
762 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
763 length value. Previously this would segfault.
765 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
766 newer versions of the scanner.
768 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
769 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
770 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
771 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
772 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
773 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
774 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
776 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
777 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
778 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
779 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
780 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
781 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
782 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
783 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
784 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
785 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
787 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
788 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
790 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
792 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
793 allows proper process termination in container environments.
795 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
796 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
798 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
799 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
800 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
802 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
803 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
804 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
805 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
807 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
808 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
811 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
812 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
814 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
815 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
816 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
817 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
818 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
820 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
821 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
824 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
825 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
827 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
830 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
831 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
832 "bare" representation.
834 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
835 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
836 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
837 corrupted the output.
843 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
844 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
845 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
846 pairs of long lines into single ones.
848 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
849 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
851 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
852 This permits better logging.
854 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
855 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
856 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
857 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
858 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
859 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
861 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
862 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
865 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
866 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
867 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
869 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
870 than 255 are no longer allowed.
872 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
873 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
874 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
875 client, there is no benefit for these.
876 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
877 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
878 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
881 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
882 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
884 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
885 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
886 erroneously found still-pending ones.
888 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
889 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
891 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
892 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
893 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
894 signature and again for transmission.
896 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
897 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
898 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
900 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
901 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
902 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
903 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
904 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
905 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
906 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
908 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
909 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
910 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
911 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
913 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
914 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
915 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
916 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
917 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
918 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
921 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
922 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
923 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
924 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
927 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
928 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
929 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
930 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
933 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
934 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
937 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
938 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
939 banner-time rejection.
941 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
944 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
945 is the name of a transport.
948 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
950 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
951 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
953 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
954 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
955 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
958 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
959 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
960 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
961 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
963 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
964 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
965 initial verify call returned a defer.
967 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
968 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
970 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
971 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
973 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
974 if present. Previously it was ignored.
976 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
977 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
979 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
980 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
983 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
984 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
986 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
987 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
988 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
990 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
991 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
992 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
993 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
995 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
996 and confused the parent.
998 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
999 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1001 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1004 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1005 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1006 out-of-order delivery.
1008 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1009 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1010 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1013 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1014 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1017 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1018 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1019 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1021 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1022 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1023 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1024 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1025 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1026 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1028 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1029 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1030 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1032 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1033 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1034 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1036 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1037 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1038 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1039 though a different problem.
1045 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1046 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1048 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1050 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1051 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1053 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1054 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1056 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1057 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1058 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1059 before acknowledging the chunk.
1061 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1062 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1063 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1065 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1066 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1067 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1070 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1071 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1072 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1074 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1075 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1077 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1078 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1079 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1080 body hash calculated value.
1082 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1083 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1084 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1086 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1088 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1089 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1091 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1092 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1093 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1095 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1096 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1097 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1098 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1099 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1100 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1102 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1103 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1104 past that check, despite the cost.
1106 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1107 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1108 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1110 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1111 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1112 TLS library to consume.
1114 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1116 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1118 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1119 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1120 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1121 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1122 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1123 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1124 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1126 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1128 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1130 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1131 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1132 should be warning-free.
1134 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1136 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1137 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1139 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1140 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1141 general solution here.
1143 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1144 already-broken messages in the queue.
1146 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1148 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1154 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1155 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1157 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1158 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1159 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1161 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1162 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1163 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1164 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1165 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1166 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1167 if one fails this test.
1168 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1169 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1171 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1172 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1174 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1175 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1177 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1178 in rewrites and routers.
1180 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1181 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1183 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1184 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1186 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1188 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1191 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1192 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1193 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1194 connection after a verify cache hit.
1195 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1197 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1198 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1200 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1201 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1202 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1203 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1204 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1206 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1207 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1209 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1210 Previously they were not counted.
1212 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1213 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1214 that needed the lookup.
1216 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1217 distinguished as "(=".
1219 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1220 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1222 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1224 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1225 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1227 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1228 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1230 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1231 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1234 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1235 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1236 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1237 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1239 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1241 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1242 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1243 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1245 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1246 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1247 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1250 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1251 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1252 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1255 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1256 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1257 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1259 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1260 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1263 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1265 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1266 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1268 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1269 are not in the system include path.
1271 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1272 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1273 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1274 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1276 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1277 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1278 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1280 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1282 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1283 an incoming connection.
1285 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1288 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1289 fallback to "prime256v1".
1291 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1292 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1298 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1299 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1300 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1301 client dropping the TLS connection.
1303 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1304 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1306 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1307 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1308 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1309 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1312 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1313 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1314 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1315 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1316 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1317 check on the next write.
1319 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1320 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1321 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1322 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1323 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1325 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1326 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1328 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1329 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1330 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1332 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1333 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1334 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1335 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1337 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1338 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1340 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1341 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1343 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1344 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1345 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1348 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1350 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1352 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1354 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1355 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1357 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1358 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1360 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1362 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1363 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1365 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1367 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1368 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1370 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1372 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1373 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1374 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1375 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1376 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1377 they will retry in-clear.
1378 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1379 at installation time.
1381 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1382 with the $config_file variable.
1384 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1385 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1386 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1387 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1388 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1390 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1391 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1392 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1393 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1394 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1396 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1398 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1399 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1400 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1401 list order is no longer honoured.
1403 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1404 for DKIM processing.
1406 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1407 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1409 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1410 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1411 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1412 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1414 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1415 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1417 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1418 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1420 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1421 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1423 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1425 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1426 cached by the daemon.
1428 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1429 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1431 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1432 keys are given for lookup.
1434 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1435 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1436 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1437 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1439 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1440 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1441 server-side so match that on older versions.
1443 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1444 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1445 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1447 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1448 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1450 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1451 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1452 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1453 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1454 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1455 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1456 initial truncated version.
1458 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1460 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1462 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1463 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1465 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1467 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1469 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1470 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1473 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1474 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1477 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1478 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1480 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1481 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1484 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1485 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1486 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1488 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1489 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1490 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1491 extraction. Accept either.
1497 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1500 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1502 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1505 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1506 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1507 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1508 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1510 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1511 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1512 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1514 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1515 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1516 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1519 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1522 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1523 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1524 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1525 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1526 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1528 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1529 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1530 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1532 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1534 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1535 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1537 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1538 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1540 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1543 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1544 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1546 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1547 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1548 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1550 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1551 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1552 specify a port-range.
1554 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1555 timeout value per server.
1557 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1558 now have the list separator specified.
1560 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1563 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1566 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1568 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1569 rather than the verbs used.
1571 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1572 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1574 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1576 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1577 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1579 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1580 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1582 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1583 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1585 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1587 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1589 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1590 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1591 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1592 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1594 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1596 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1597 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1599 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1600 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1602 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1604 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1606 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1608 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1609 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1611 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1612 added for tls authenticator.
1614 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1620 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1621 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1622 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1623 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1624 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1625 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1626 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1628 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1629 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1630 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1631 function when detected.
1633 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1634 cause callback expansion.
1636 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1637 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1638 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1639 instead of bool when processing it.
1641 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1642 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1644 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1646 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1648 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1650 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1651 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1653 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1654 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1655 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1656 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1657 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1658 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1660 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1661 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1664 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1665 version 3.3.6 or later.
1667 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1668 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1669 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1670 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1671 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1672 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1675 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1676 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1678 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1679 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1680 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1683 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1684 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1685 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1687 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1688 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1690 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1691 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1694 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1696 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1697 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1699 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1700 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1703 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1705 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1708 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1709 output list separator was used.
1714 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1715 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1718 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1719 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1721 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1723 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1724 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1730 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1732 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1733 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1734 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1735 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1736 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1737 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1739 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1740 utilities have not been installed.
1742 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1743 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1745 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1746 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1748 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1749 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1750 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1751 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1753 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1755 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1756 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1758 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1761 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1763 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1764 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1765 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1767 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1768 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1769 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1770 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1771 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1772 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1774 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1776 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1777 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1779 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1782 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1784 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1786 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1787 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1789 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1790 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1792 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1794 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1796 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1797 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1799 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1800 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1801 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1803 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1804 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1805 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1808 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1810 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1811 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1814 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1815 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1818 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1819 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1821 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1822 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1824 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1826 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1827 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1828 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1830 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1831 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1833 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1834 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1837 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1838 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1839 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1841 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1843 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1844 Christian Aistleitner.
1846 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1848 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1849 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1851 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1852 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1854 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1855 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1857 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1858 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1860 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1861 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1863 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1864 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1865 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1867 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1869 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1870 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1873 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1875 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1876 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1883 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1885 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1886 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1888 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1891 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1892 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1895 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1897 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1898 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1899 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1900 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1901 using channel bindings instead).
1903 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1904 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1905 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1906 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1907 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1910 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1912 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1914 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1915 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1917 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1918 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1919 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1921 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1923 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1925 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1926 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1928 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1930 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1932 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1934 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1935 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1937 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1939 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1940 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1943 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1944 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1946 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1947 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1950 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1952 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1954 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1955 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1957 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1960 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1961 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1963 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1964 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1966 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1968 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1970 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1973 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1976 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1978 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1979 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1980 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1981 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1983 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1985 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1986 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1987 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1988 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1991 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1992 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1993 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1995 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1996 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1997 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1998 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2000 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2001 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2002 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2003 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2004 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2005 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2006 delivery, as in LMTP.
2008 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2009 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2011 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2013 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2017 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2018 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2019 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2020 username as equal to the username.
2022 This change corrects that bug.
2024 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2025 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2026 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2028 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2030 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2031 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2032 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2033 NULL dereference and crash.
2035 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2037 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2038 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2039 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2041 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2043 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2044 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2045 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2046 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2047 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2048 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2049 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2050 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2051 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2052 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2053 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2055 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2056 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2058 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2059 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2062 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2063 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2064 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2065 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2066 an empty string is now equivalent.
2068 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2069 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2070 not performing validation itself.
2072 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2073 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2075 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2078 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2080 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2081 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2082 other false fix of the same issue.
2083 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2086 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2087 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2089 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2090 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2091 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2093 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2094 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2095 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2097 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2099 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2101 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2102 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2104 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2107 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2108 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2109 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2110 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2111 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2113 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2114 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2116 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2117 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2120 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2121 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2122 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2123 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2125 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2127 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2128 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2129 from multiple comments on this bug.
2131 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2133 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2134 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2137 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2138 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2140 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2141 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2147 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2149 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2155 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2156 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2157 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2159 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2161 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2164 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2166 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2168 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2170 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2171 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2173 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2174 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2176 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2177 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2179 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2180 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2181 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2183 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2185 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2186 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2188 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2190 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2192 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2193 non-compliant senders.
2194 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2196 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2197 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2198 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2200 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2201 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2202 in spool file corruption.
2204 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2205 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2206 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2209 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2210 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2211 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2213 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2214 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2216 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2218 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2220 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2222 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2223 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2224 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2226 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2227 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2228 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2229 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2231 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2232 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2234 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2235 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2236 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2237 resolver implementation change.
2239 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2240 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2242 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2244 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2246 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2247 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2249 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2250 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2252 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2253 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2255 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2256 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2257 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2258 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2259 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2261 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2263 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2264 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2265 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2267 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2269 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2270 read-only, out of scope).
2271 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2273 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2274 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2275 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2276 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2278 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2280 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2281 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2282 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2283 real issues in debug logging.
2285 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2286 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2288 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2289 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2290 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2292 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2293 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2294 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2297 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2298 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2300 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2301 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2302 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2303 needs to override this, it can.
2305 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2306 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2307 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2309 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2310 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2311 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2312 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2314 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2320 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2321 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2323 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2325 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2328 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2329 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2331 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2332 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2333 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2335 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2336 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2337 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2338 not safe for signals.
2340 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2341 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2342 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2343 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2346 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2348 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2349 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2350 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2351 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2352 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2354 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2355 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2356 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2357 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2358 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2359 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2361 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2362 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2363 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2364 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2366 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2367 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2368 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2369 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2371 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2372 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2373 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2374 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2375 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2376 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2377 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2378 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2379 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2381 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2382 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2383 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2384 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2386 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2387 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2388 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2389 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2390 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2391 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2392 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2393 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2394 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2395 details in the main documentation.
2397 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2399 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2401 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2402 repository when doing development or release builds.
2404 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2405 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2407 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2408 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2411 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2413 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2414 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2416 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2417 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2419 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2420 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2422 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2423 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2425 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2426 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2428 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2430 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2433 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2434 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2435 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2437 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2439 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2441 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2442 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2448 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2450 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2451 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2453 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2455 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2457 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2460 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2461 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2463 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2464 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2466 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2467 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2469 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2472 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2473 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2475 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2476 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2477 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2478 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2480 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2481 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2487 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2490 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2491 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2492 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2494 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2495 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2497 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2498 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2499 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2501 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2502 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2504 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2505 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2507 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2508 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2510 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2511 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2513 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2514 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2516 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2519 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2520 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2522 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2523 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2525 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2526 SQL string expansion failure details.
2527 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2529 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2530 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2532 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2533 extern declarations in function scope.
2534 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2536 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2537 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2538 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2541 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2542 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2544 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2545 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2547 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2548 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2550 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2551 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2553 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2554 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2557 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2559 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2561 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2562 Patch by Simon Arlott
2564 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2565 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2571 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2572 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2574 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2575 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2577 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2579 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2580 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2581 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2583 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2584 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2585 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2587 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2588 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2589 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2590 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2592 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2593 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2594 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2595 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2597 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2598 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2599 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2602 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2605 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2606 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2607 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2608 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2609 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2615 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2616 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2617 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2619 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2620 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2622 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2624 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2626 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2628 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2630 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2632 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2633 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2634 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2635 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2637 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2638 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2639 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2640 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2641 more caution in buffer sizes.
2643 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2645 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2647 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2649 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2651 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2653 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2655 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2657 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2658 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2659 ignore trailing whitespace.
2661 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2663 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2666 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2667 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2669 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2670 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2671 Notification from John Horne.
2673 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2676 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2677 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2680 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2683 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2684 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2685 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2687 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2688 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2689 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2692 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2693 option (effectively making it always true).
2695 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2696 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2698 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2699 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2701 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2702 run-time user, instead of root.
2704 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2705 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2707 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2708 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2711 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2712 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2713 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2715 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2717 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2723 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2724 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2727 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2728 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2731 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2732 Patch from Alain Williams
2734 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2736 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2737 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2739 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2740 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2742 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2744 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2746 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2747 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2749 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2751 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2753 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2754 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2755 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2757 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2758 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2760 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2761 Patch by Simon Arlott
2763 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2764 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2770 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2772 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2774 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2776 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2778 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2784 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2785 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2787 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2788 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2791 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2792 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2793 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2795 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2796 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2798 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2799 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2800 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2801 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2803 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2804 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2805 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2807 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2809 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2811 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2812 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2814 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2816 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2817 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2818 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2819 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2821 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2822 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2824 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2826 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2828 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2829 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2831 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2832 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2834 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2835 that they are available at delivery time.
2837 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2839 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2840 incoming_port log selectors.
2842 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2843 setting expands to an empty string.
2845 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2846 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2848 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2849 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2851 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2852 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2854 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2855 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2857 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2858 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2860 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2861 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2863 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2865 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2866 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2868 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2869 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2871 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2873 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2874 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2876 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2878 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2880 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2883 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2884 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2886 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2887 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2889 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2890 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2892 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2893 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2895 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2896 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2898 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2899 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2901 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2902 plus update to original patch.
2904 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2906 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2907 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2909 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2911 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2913 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2915 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2917 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2918 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2920 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2921 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2923 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2924 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2926 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2927 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2929 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2931 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2933 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2935 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2941 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2942 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2943 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2945 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2946 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2947 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2948 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2949 build errors in sieve.c.
2951 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2952 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2953 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2955 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2957 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2959 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2961 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2967 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2969 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2970 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2971 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2972 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2973 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2974 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2975 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2976 for iplsearch lookups.
2978 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2979 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2980 previously such lookups could never work.
2982 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2983 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2984 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2986 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2989 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2990 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2991 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2992 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2993 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2994 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2996 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2997 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2999 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3000 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3001 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3002 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3003 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3004 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3006 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3009 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3011 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3012 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3015 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3016 by clients under certain conditions.
3018 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3019 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3021 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3023 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3024 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3026 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3028 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3030 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3032 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3033 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3035 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3037 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3038 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3040 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3042 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3044 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3045 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3046 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3047 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3049 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3050 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3051 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3053 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3054 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3056 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3058 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3060 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3062 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3063 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3064 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3070 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3071 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3074 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3075 issue a MAIL command.
3077 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3079 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3081 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3082 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3083 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3084 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3085 item. This has been fixed.
3087 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3088 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3090 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3091 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3093 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3094 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3095 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3097 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3099 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3100 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3101 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3102 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3103 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3105 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3106 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3107 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3109 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3110 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3111 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3112 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3114 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3116 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3118 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3119 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3120 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3121 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3122 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3124 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3126 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3127 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3128 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3131 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3133 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3135 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3137 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3139 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3141 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3142 no_callout_flush is set.
3144 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3145 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3146 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3149 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3151 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3152 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3153 other ACL rejections are.
3155 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3156 with slight modification.
3158 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3159 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3161 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3162 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3165 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3166 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3168 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3170 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3171 expansion side effects.
3173 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3174 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3175 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3178 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3179 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3180 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3182 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3183 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3184 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3185 were accidentally chopped off.
3187 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3188 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3189 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3190 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3191 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3192 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3193 pipelining has not been advertised.
3195 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3197 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3198 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3199 This has been fixed.
3201 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3202 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3203 reported on Solaris.
3205 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3206 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3207 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3208 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3209 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3210 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3211 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3213 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3216 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3218 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3220 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3221 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3222 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3223 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3224 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3225 criteria to be more general.
3227 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3228 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3229 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3230 host_all_ignored option.
3232 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3233 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3234 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3235 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3236 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3237 is what is supposed to happen).
3239 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3240 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3241 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3242 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3243 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3246 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3247 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3248 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3249 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3250 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3251 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3254 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3256 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3257 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3259 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3260 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3262 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3264 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3266 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3267 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3268 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3269 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3270 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3271 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3272 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3273 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3274 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3275 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3276 least in a lot of common cases.
3278 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3279 advertised in response to EHLO.
3285 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3286 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3288 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3289 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3291 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3292 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3293 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3295 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3296 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3297 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3298 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3299 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3305 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3306 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3309 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3310 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3311 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3313 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3314 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3315 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3316 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3317 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3318 rather than extend the field.
3324 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3325 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3326 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3327 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3330 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3331 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3332 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3334 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3335 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3336 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3338 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3339 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3340 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3343 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3344 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3345 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3346 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3347 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3348 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3349 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3350 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3351 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3352 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3353 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3355 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3358 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3359 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3360 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3361 ignores EPIPE as well.
3363 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3364 (quoted-printable decoding).
3366 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3367 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3369 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3371 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3373 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3375 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3376 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3378 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3381 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3382 miscellaneous code fixes
3384 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3387 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3388 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3389 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3390 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3391 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3392 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3393 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3394 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3396 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3397 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3398 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3399 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3401 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3402 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3403 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3404 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3405 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3406 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3407 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3408 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3409 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3411 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3414 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3415 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3416 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3417 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3418 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3419 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3420 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3421 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3423 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3424 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3427 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3428 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3429 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3430 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3431 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3432 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3433 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3434 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3435 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3436 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3437 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3438 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3439 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3441 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3442 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3443 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3444 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3445 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3446 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3447 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3449 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3450 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3451 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3452 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3453 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3454 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3455 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3456 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3457 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3458 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3460 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3461 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3462 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3463 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3464 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3466 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3467 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3468 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3469 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3470 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3471 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3472 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3474 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3475 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3476 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3477 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3478 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3479 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3482 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3483 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3484 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3487 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3488 if any retry times were supplied.
3490 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3491 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3492 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3494 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3496 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3498 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3499 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3500 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3501 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3502 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3503 before) are ignored.
3505 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3506 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3508 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3509 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3510 committing the later change.]
3512 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3513 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3514 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3515 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3516 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3517 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3518 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3519 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3520 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3522 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3523 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3524 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3525 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3526 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3527 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3528 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3529 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3530 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3532 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3533 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3534 hammering the server.
3536 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3537 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3539 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3541 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3542 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3543 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3545 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3546 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3547 one case where this was not true.
3549 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3550 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3551 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3552 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3555 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3556 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3557 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3558 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3559 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3560 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3561 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3562 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3563 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3566 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3567 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3568 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3569 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3571 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3572 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3574 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3575 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3576 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3578 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3580 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3582 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3584 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3585 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3586 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3587 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3589 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3590 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3592 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3593 be meaningful with "accept".
3595 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3596 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3598 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3599 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3600 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3602 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3603 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3604 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3605 there is data to show.
3606 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3608 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3609 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3610 as well as the number of messages.
3612 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3613 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3614 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3616 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3617 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3618 have a flag are now skipped.
3620 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3621 Added the -emptyok flag.
3623 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3624 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3626 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3627 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3628 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3630 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3633 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3634 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3636 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3638 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3639 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3641 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3643 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3644 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3645 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3646 contravention of the specifications.
3648 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3649 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3650 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3652 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3653 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3654 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3656 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3658 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3659 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3660 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3661 some point in the past.
3663 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3664 transport during callout processing was broken.
3666 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3667 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3669 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3670 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3672 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3673 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3675 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3681 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3682 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3684 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3685 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3686 there is data to show.
3687 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3689 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3690 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3692 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3693 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3695 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3696 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3698 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3699 submissions from trusted users.
3701 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3702 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3704 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3705 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3706 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3707 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3708 there is now a framework to start from.
3710 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3711 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3712 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3714 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3716 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3718 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3720 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3721 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3722 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3724 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3727 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3728 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3729 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3731 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3732 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3733 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3736 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3737 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3738 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3739 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3740 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3742 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3743 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3745 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3747 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3748 operations in malware.c.
3750 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3753 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3754 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3755 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3758 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3759 statements to "add_header".
3761 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3762 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3764 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3765 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3768 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3772 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3773 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3774 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3777 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3778 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3780 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3781 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3783 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3784 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3785 any possible encoding problems.
3787 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3788 but not after initializing Perl.
3790 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3791 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3792 apparently, which is not desirable.
3794 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3797 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3800 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3802 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3803 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3804 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3805 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3807 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3808 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3809 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3811 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3812 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3813 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3816 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3817 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3818 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3819 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3820 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3826 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3827 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3829 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3832 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3833 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3834 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3835 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3836 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3837 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3838 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3839 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3842 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3844 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3845 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3846 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3848 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3849 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3850 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3853 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3854 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3856 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3857 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3858 option (which defaults to 0600).
3860 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3862 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3863 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3864 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3865 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3866 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3867 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3868 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3870 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3876 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3877 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3878 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3879 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3880 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3881 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3884 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3885 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3887 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3889 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3890 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3891 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3892 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3893 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3896 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3897 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3899 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3900 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3901 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3902 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3903 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3905 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3906 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3907 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3908 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3910 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3911 be the same on different OS.
3913 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3916 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3917 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3919 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3922 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3923 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3924 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3925 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3926 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3927 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3930 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3931 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3932 when Exim was called.
3934 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3935 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3937 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3938 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3939 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3940 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3942 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3943 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3944 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3945 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3948 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3949 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3950 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3952 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3953 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3954 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3956 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3959 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3960 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3961 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3962 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3963 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3964 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3965 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3966 values from the SRV records were lost.
3968 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3969 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3970 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3972 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3973 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3974 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3976 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3977 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3978 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3979 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3980 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3981 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3982 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3983 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3984 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3985 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3987 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3988 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3989 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3991 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3992 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3994 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3995 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3996 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3997 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4000 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4001 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4002 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4004 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4005 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4006 PH/23 above applies.
4008 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4009 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4010 (for which there is an explicit test).
4012 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4014 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4015 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4016 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4017 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4018 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4020 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4021 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4022 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4023 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4025 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4026 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4027 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4029 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4031 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4033 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4034 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4035 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4037 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4038 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4039 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4040 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4041 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4043 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4044 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4045 the message gets confusing).
4047 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4048 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4049 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4050 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4052 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4053 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4054 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4055 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4058 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4059 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4060 the different processes.
4062 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4064 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4066 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4067 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4069 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4070 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4072 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4073 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4074 messages matching specified criteria.
4076 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4078 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4079 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4081 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4082 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4083 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4084 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4085 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4086 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4087 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4088 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4089 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4090 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4092 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4093 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4094 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4096 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4098 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4099 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4100 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4101 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4102 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4103 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4104 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4107 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4108 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4110 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4112 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4114 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4116 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4117 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4118 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4119 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4120 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4121 size of the count of files.
4123 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4125 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4128 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4129 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4130 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4131 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4133 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4134 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4135 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4137 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4138 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4139 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4140 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4141 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4143 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4144 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4146 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4147 will now be deprecated.
4149 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4151 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4152 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4153 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4155 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4156 with very large, slow to parse queues
4158 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4160 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4162 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4163 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4164 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4167 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4168 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4169 Sieve code now uses this.
4171 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4172 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4174 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4175 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4177 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4179 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4180 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4181 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4182 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4183 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4185 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4186 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4187 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4188 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4190 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4192 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4194 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4195 is preferred over IPv4.
4197 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4198 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4199 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4200 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4201 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4202 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4203 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4205 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4206 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4207 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4209 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4211 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4212 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4213 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4214 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4215 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4216 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4217 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4218 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4219 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4220 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4221 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4223 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4224 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4225 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4231 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4233 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4234 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4236 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4237 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4238 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4240 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4242 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4245 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4248 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4249 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4250 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4253 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4254 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4256 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4257 inside the third argument.
4259 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4260 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4263 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4264 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4266 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4267 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4269 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4271 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4272 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4275 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4277 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4278 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4279 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4280 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4281 identical. For example:
4283 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4285 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4286 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4287 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4289 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4290 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4291 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4292 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4294 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4295 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4296 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4299 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4301 o fixes some comments
4302 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4303 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4304 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4305 and documents the missing references header update
4309 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4310 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4313 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4314 Electronic Mail") by including:
4316 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4318 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4319 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4320 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4321 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4322 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4324 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4326 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4328 The auto-replied keyword:
4330 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4331 message by an automatic process,
4333 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4335 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4336 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4338 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4339 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4342 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4343 to the default Received: header definition.
4345 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4347 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4348 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4349 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4351 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4352 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4353 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4355 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4356 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4357 and treats the condition as false.
4359 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4361 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4362 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4363 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4364 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4365 not changing the active code.
4367 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4368 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4370 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4371 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4373 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4376 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4377 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4378 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4379 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4380 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4381 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4382 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4383 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4384 the text comparison.
4386 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4387 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4388 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4389 The same fix has been applied.
4395 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4396 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4399 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4400 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4402 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4404 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4405 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4406 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4407 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4408 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4410 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4411 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4412 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4413 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4416 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4424 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4425 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4427 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4429 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4431 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4432 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4433 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4435 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4436 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4437 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4439 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4440 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4443 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4444 ${stat: expansion item.
4446 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4447 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4449 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4450 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4453 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4455 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4458 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4459 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4461 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4463 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4464 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4465 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4466 the end of the subprocess.
4468 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4469 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4470 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4471 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4472 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4474 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4476 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4478 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4479 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4481 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4483 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4485 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4486 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4489 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4491 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4492 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4493 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4495 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4496 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4498 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4499 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4501 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4502 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4504 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4505 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4507 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4508 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4509 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4510 contributed by a Radius user.
4512 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4513 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4515 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4516 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4518 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4521 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4522 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4525 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4526 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4527 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4528 header lines when this was not necessary.
4530 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4532 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4533 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4534 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4537 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4540 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4541 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4542 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4543 return code was incorrect.
4545 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4547 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4549 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4551 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4553 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4554 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4555 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4556 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4557 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4560 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4562 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4563 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4564 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4565 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4566 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4567 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4568 which is clearly wrong.
4570 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4572 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4573 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4574 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4577 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4578 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4580 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4582 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4583 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4585 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4586 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4588 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4589 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4591 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4592 recipients, not senders.
4594 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4595 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4597 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4599 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4601 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4602 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4603 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4604 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4606 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4608 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4609 clock is set back in time.
4611 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4612 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4614 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4615 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4617 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4618 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4621 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4622 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4625 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4628 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4630 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4631 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4632 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4634 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4635 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4636 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4637 helo verification defer as a failure.
4639 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4640 actual error message.
4646 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4648 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4649 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4650 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4651 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4653 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4655 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4656 can still be requested.
4658 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4659 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4660 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4661 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4663 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4664 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4665 circumstances, but probably never did.
4667 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4668 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4669 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4672 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4674 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4675 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4677 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4679 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4681 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4682 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4683 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4684 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4685 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4686 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4688 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4689 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4690 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4691 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4692 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4693 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4695 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4696 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4698 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4699 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4701 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4702 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4704 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4706 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4708 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4710 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4712 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4714 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4716 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4718 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4719 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4720 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4722 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4723 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4724 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4725 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4727 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4728 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4729 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4731 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4732 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4733 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4734 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4736 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4737 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4740 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4741 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4742 should work with maildirs and everything.
4744 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4745 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4747 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4750 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4751 function for BDB 4.3.
4753 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4755 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4756 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4759 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4760 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4761 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4762 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4763 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4764 formatting function string_vformat().
4766 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4767 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4768 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4769 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4770 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4771 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4772 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4773 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4775 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4776 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4779 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4780 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4782 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4783 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4784 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4785 test. It is now used for both.
4787 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4788 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4789 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4790 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4791 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4792 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4794 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4795 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4796 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4799 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4800 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4801 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4803 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4804 experimental DomainKeys support:
4806 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4807 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4808 the control was given.
4810 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4812 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4814 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4816 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4817 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4818 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4821 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4822 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4823 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4824 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4825 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4826 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4829 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4830 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4831 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4832 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4833 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4834 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4836 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4837 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4838 do -d+all out of habit.
4840 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4841 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4844 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4845 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4846 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4847 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4848 record types that Exim uses.
4850 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4851 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4852 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4853 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4854 non-existent file that was broken.
4856 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4857 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4859 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4860 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4861 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4863 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4865 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4866 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4867 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4868 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4869 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4872 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4873 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4874 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4875 at a slight CPU cost.
4877 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4878 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4880 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4883 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4885 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4886 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4892 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4893 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4895 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4897 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4899 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4900 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4902 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4903 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4904 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4905 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4906 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4907 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4910 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4911 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4912 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4913 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4916 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4917 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4918 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4919 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4920 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4921 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4922 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4925 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4926 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4928 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4929 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4930 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4931 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4932 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4933 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4935 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4936 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4937 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4938 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4940 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4943 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4944 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4946 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4947 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4948 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4949 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4952 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4954 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4955 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4957 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4958 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4959 to what was transported.)
4961 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4963 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4964 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4965 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4966 spamd_address settings.
4968 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4969 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4970 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4971 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4972 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4974 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4976 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4977 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4978 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4979 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4980 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4982 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4983 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4985 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4986 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4987 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4988 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4989 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4990 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4991 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4994 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4995 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4996 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4997 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4998 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4999 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5000 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5003 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5005 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5006 driver and ACL definitions.
5008 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5009 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5011 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5012 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5013 understands it better than I do:
5015 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5016 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5018 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5019 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5020 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5021 => three warnings about OTP not working
5022 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5024 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5025 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5026 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5027 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5029 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5030 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5032 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5033 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5034 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5036 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5037 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5040 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5041 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5044 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5045 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5046 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5048 warn !verify = sender
5049 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5051 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5052 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5054 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5056 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5057 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5059 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5060 nomenclature these days.)
5062 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5063 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5065 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5066 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5067 . First host does not offer TLS;
5068 . First host accepts first address;
5069 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5070 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5071 . Second host accepts second address.
5072 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5073 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5076 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5077 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5078 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5079 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5080 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5082 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5083 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5085 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5086 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5088 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5089 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5090 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5092 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5093 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5096 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5098 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5099 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5100 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5101 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5102 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5103 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5104 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5106 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5107 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5108 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5109 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5110 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5112 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5113 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5116 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5117 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5118 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5119 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5120 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5121 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5123 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5125 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5126 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5127 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5128 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5129 printable escape sequences.
5131 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5132 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5135 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5136 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5139 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5140 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5141 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5142 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5143 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5145 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5146 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5147 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5149 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5151 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5152 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5155 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5156 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5157 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5158 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5159 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5160 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5161 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5162 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5163 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5166 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5167 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5168 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5169 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5173 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5174 ----------------------------------------
5176 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5177 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5178 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5179 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5180 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5181 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5184 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5185 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5186 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5187 historical information.
5193 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5195 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5196 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5198 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5199 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5202 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5203 filter fails to execute.
5205 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5206 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5207 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5208 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5209 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5211 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5213 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5214 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5215 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5216 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5218 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5219 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5220 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5221 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5222 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5224 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5226 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5228 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5229 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5230 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5231 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5233 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5234 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5235 sender verification.
5237 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5238 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5240 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5242 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5245 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5246 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5248 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5249 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5251 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5252 information about exactly what failed.
5254 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5256 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5257 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5258 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5260 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5261 It is now set to "smtps".
5263 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5264 ignore_target_hosts.
5266 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5267 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5268 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5269 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5272 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5273 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5274 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5276 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5277 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5278 wake it up if nothing else does.
5280 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5281 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5282 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5285 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5286 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5288 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5290 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5291 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5292 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5293 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5294 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5295 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5296 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5297 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5299 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5300 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5301 than one IP address.
5303 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5304 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5305 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5306 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5308 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5309 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5310 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5311 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5312 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5315 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5316 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5317 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5318 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5320 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5321 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5324 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5325 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5326 $sender_host_address.
5328 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5329 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5330 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5331 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5332 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5335 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5337 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5338 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5340 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5341 just the host names, not the priorities.
5343 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5344 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5345 controlled by a keyword.
5347 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5348 multiple records are returned.
5350 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5351 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5354 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5356 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5357 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5359 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5360 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5361 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5363 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5365 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5367 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5369 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5370 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5371 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5372 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5373 because the tests only now provoked it.
5375 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5376 (this can affect the format of dates).
5378 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5379 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5380 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5381 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5383 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5385 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5386 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5387 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5388 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5390 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5391 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5392 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5394 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5397 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5398 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5399 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5400 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5401 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5402 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5405 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5406 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5407 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5410 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5411 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5412 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5414 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5415 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5416 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5417 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5418 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5419 so I produce this patch..."
5421 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5422 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5425 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5426 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5427 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5428 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5431 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5433 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5434 long debug lines gets shown.
5436 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5437 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5439 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5441 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5442 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5443 of $primary_hostname.
5445 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5446 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5447 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5448 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5449 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5450 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5451 by change 4.50/55 above.
5453 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5454 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5455 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5456 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5457 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5458 running as the user.
5461 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5462 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5463 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5466 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5467 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5469 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5470 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5471 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5472 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5473 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5475 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5476 This has been fixed.
5478 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5479 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5480 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5481 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5484 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5486 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5487 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5488 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5489 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5491 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5492 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5494 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5495 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5496 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5498 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5499 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5500 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5503 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5504 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5505 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5507 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5508 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5509 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5510 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5512 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5513 during host lookups.
5515 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5516 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5518 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5520 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5521 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5522 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5523 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5524 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5527 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5528 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5530 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5531 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5532 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5534 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5536 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5537 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5538 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5539 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5540 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5541 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5544 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5545 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5546 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5547 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5548 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5550 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5553 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5555 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5556 "vacation" handling.
5558 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5559 OS variants using glibc.
5561 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5564 ----------------------------------------------------
5565 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5566 ----------------------------------------------------
5572 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5573 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5576 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5577 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5580 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5581 filter fails to execute.
5583 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5584 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5585 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5586 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5587 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5589 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5590 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5591 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5592 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5594 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5595 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5596 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5597 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5598 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5600 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5602 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5603 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5604 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5605 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5607 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5608 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5609 sender verification.
5611 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5612 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5614 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5615 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5617 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5618 ignore_target_hosts.
5620 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5621 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5622 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5623 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5626 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5627 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5628 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5630 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5631 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5632 wake it up if nothing else does.
5634 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5635 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5636 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5639 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5640 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5642 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5644 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5645 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5648 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5649 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5652 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5653 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5654 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5655 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5656 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5659 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5660 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5663 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5664 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5665 $sender_host_address.
5667 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5669 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5670 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5671 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5673 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5676 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5677 (this can affect the format of dates).
5679 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5680 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5681 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5682 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5684 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5685 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5686 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5688 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5689 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5690 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5691 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5693 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5694 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5695 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5697 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5700 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5701 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5702 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5703 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5704 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5705 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5708 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5709 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5710 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5711 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5714 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5715 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5716 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5717 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5718 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5719 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5720 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5722 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5723 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5724 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5725 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5726 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5727 running as the user.
5730 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5731 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5732 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5735 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5736 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5737 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5738 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5739 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5741 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5742 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5743 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5744 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5747 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5748 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5749 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5750 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5751 because the tests only now provoked it.
5757 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5758 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5759 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5760 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5761 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5762 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5763 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5765 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5766 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5769 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5771 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5773 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5774 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5777 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5778 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5779 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5780 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5781 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5783 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5784 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5786 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5788 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5790 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5793 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5794 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5796 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5797 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5798 affecting debugging statements).
5800 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5802 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5803 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5804 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5805 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5806 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5807 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5808 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5809 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5810 after the received time, and all would be well.
5812 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5813 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5814 condition in an expansion string.
5816 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5818 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5819 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5820 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5821 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5822 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5823 job under whatever limits there are.
5825 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5827 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5830 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5831 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5832 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5833 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5836 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5837 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5838 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5839 binary data in such strings.
5841 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5843 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5844 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5845 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5846 failure, which is pointless.
5848 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5850 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5852 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5853 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5854 Sender: header lines.
5856 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5857 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5858 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5860 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5861 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5862 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5863 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5864 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5867 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5868 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5869 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5870 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5871 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5873 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5874 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5875 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5878 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5879 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5881 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5882 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5884 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5886 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5888 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5890 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5893 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5895 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5897 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5898 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5899 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5900 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5902 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5903 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5909 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5910 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5911 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5913 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5914 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5915 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5916 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5917 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5918 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5920 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5921 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5922 verification failure".
5924 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5925 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5926 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5927 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5929 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5930 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5931 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5932 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5933 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5934 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5935 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5936 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5937 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5938 treated as a timeout.
5940 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5941 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5942 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5943 not set for Exim filters).
5945 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5946 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5947 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5949 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5951 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5952 try to make them clearer.
5954 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5955 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5957 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5959 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5961 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5962 only the Cygwin environment.
5964 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5965 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5966 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5967 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5968 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5970 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5971 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5972 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5973 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5974 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5975 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5976 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5978 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5979 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5981 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5983 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5984 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5985 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5987 To: susanne@some.where
5989 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5990 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5991 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5992 of addresses in From: header lines).
5994 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5995 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5996 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5998 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5999 treated as non-personal.
6001 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6002 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6004 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6006 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6008 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6009 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6010 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6012 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6013 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6015 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6016 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6017 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6018 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6019 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6020 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6022 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6023 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6024 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6025 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6026 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6027 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6028 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6029 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6031 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6033 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6034 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6036 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6037 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6038 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6040 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6041 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6043 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6044 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6045 rather than long int.
6047 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6049 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6055 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6056 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6057 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6058 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6059 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6060 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6066 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6067 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6069 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6070 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6071 socklen_t is defined.
6073 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6076 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6079 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6080 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6081 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6082 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6083 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6085 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6086 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6087 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6088 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6090 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6091 of flapping under certain conditions.
6093 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6094 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6095 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6097 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6099 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6101 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6102 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6103 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6104 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6106 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6107 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6108 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6109 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6110 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6111 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6112 preserved with the message after it was received.
6114 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6115 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6116 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6117 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6118 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6119 test suite worked just fine.
6121 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6122 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6123 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6125 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6126 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6129 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6130 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6131 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6132 does not fully solve it.
6134 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6135 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6136 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6137 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6138 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6140 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6141 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6142 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6144 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6145 string, for example:
6147 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6149 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6150 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6151 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6152 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6153 the routers could not see them.
6155 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6156 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6158 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6159 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6162 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6163 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6164 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6165 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6166 that needed quoting.
6168 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6169 was not being matched caselessly.
6171 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6174 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6175 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6176 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6177 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6178 when use_sender is false.
6180 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6182 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6184 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6186 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6187 the configuration file.
6189 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6190 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6192 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6194 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6195 bytes in the message body.
6197 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6198 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6201 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6203 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6205 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6206 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6207 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6208 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6215 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6216 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6218 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6219 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6220 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6221 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6222 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6224 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6225 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6227 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6228 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6229 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6231 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6232 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6233 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6235 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6238 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6239 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6240 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6241 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6242 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6243 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6244 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6250 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6251 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6252 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6253 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6254 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6255 default (and expected) setting.
6257 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6258 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6259 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6260 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6262 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6263 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6265 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6268 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6269 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6270 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6271 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6272 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6273 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6275 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6276 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6277 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6279 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6280 part (NOT match_host).
6282 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6284 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6285 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6286 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6287 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6288 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6289 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6290 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6291 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6292 the same named file.
6294 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6295 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6298 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6299 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6300 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6301 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6304 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6305 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6306 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6308 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6310 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6312 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6314 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6315 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6317 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6318 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6319 before starting the TLS session.
6321 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6323 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6324 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6326 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6327 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6328 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6329 colon in the middle).
6335 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6336 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6337 multiple configurations are in use.
6339 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6340 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6341 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6342 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6343 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6344 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6346 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6347 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6349 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6350 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6351 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6353 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6354 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6357 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6358 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6360 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6362 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6363 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6365 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6373 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6374 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6375 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6376 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6377 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6379 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6382 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6383 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6384 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6385 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6386 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6387 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6389 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6390 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6391 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6392 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6393 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6394 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6395 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6398 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6399 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6400 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6401 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6402 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6404 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6406 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6407 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6408 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6410 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6412 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6413 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6414 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6417 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6418 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6420 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6421 Three changes have been made:
6423 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6424 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6425 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6426 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6427 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6429 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6432 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6433 the modified behaviour.
6439 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6442 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6443 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6445 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6446 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6447 try to track down a specific problem.
6449 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6450 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6451 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6453 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6456 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6457 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6458 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6459 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6460 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6461 some earlier ones do not.
6463 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6465 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6466 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6467 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6468 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6469 address literals are enabled, of course).
6471 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6473 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6474 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6475 by a command such as
6479 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6481 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6483 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6484 remained set. It is now erased.
6486 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6487 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6489 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6490 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6491 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6492 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6493 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6494 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6495 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6496 appropriate error code.
6498 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6499 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6500 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6501 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6502 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6503 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6505 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6506 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6507 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6509 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6510 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6511 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6512 terminate the header.
6514 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6515 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6516 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6518 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6519 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6520 (4.30/29). In particular:
6522 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6525 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6526 to write a maildirsize file.
6528 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6529 the transport, the new value overrides.
6531 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6534 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6535 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6536 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6539 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6540 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6541 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6544 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6545 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6546 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6548 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6549 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6552 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6553 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6554 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6556 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6558 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6560 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6562 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6563 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6566 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6567 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6568 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6569 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6570 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6571 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6572 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6575 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6576 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6577 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6578 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6579 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6582 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6583 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6584 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6585 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6586 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6587 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6588 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6589 cached value only when the same options are set.
6591 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6593 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6594 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6595 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6596 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6597 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6599 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6600 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6601 it is clearly obsolete.
6603 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6606 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6607 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6608 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6611 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6612 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6613 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6614 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6615 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6617 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6618 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6619 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6620 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6622 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6624 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6626 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6627 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6630 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6631 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6632 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6633 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6634 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6635 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6638 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6639 with the -f command-line option.
6641 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6642 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6643 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6644 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6645 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6646 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6648 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6649 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6652 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6653 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6654 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6655 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6656 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6657 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6658 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6659 buffer is too small.
6661 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6662 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6664 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6665 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6666 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6667 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6668 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6669 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6670 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6671 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6672 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6674 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6675 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6676 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6678 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6679 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6682 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6683 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6684 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6685 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6686 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6688 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6689 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6690 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6691 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6694 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6696 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6698 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6699 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6701 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6702 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6703 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6705 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6706 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6707 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6708 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6709 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6711 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6712 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6713 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6714 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6715 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6716 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6717 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6719 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6720 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6721 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6722 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6723 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6724 the test of how many are available.
6726 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6727 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6728 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6729 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6730 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6731 new message is started.
6733 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6734 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6736 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6737 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6739 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6740 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6741 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6744 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6745 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6746 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6747 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6748 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6749 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6750 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6752 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6753 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6754 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6755 interpreted as octal.
6757 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6760 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6761 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6762 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6763 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6764 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6765 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6767 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6768 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6769 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6770 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6772 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6773 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6774 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6775 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6777 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6778 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6781 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6782 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6784 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6786 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6787 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6788 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6789 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6791 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6792 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6793 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6794 supplied", which is not helpful.
6796 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6797 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6798 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6800 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6801 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6802 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6803 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6804 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6805 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6806 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6807 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6809 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6810 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6811 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6812 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6813 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6815 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6816 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6817 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6818 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6819 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6820 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6822 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6823 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6824 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6826 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6828 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6829 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6830 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6833 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6835 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6836 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6837 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6838 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6839 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6840 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6841 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6842 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6844 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6845 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6846 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6847 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6848 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6850 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6853 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6854 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6855 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6856 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6857 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6858 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6859 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6860 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6861 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6867 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6868 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6869 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6871 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6874 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6875 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6876 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6878 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6879 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6880 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6881 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6882 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6883 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6885 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6886 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6887 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6888 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6889 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6890 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6891 the Exim test suite.
6893 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6894 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6895 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6896 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6898 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6899 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6900 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6901 specify it in this variable.
6903 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6904 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6905 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6906 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6908 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6909 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6910 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6911 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6913 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6914 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6915 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6916 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6917 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6919 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6921 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6924 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6925 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6926 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6927 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6928 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6930 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6931 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6933 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6934 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6935 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6936 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6937 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6939 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6940 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6942 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6943 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6944 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6946 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6947 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6949 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6950 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6952 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6953 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6954 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6956 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6957 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6959 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6960 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6961 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6962 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6964 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6966 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6967 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6968 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6969 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6971 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6973 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6974 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6976 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6978 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6979 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6980 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6981 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6982 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6983 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6985 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6987 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6988 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6991 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6993 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6994 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6996 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6997 550 Sender verify failed
6999 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7000 the final line of the response.
7002 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7003 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7004 all other user lookups.
7006 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7009 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7010 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7011 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7012 result into an int without checking.
7014 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7015 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7016 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7018 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7019 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7020 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7021 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7023 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7026 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7027 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7029 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7030 to the empty sender.
7032 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7033 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7034 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7035 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7036 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7037 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7038 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7041 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7042 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7043 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7044 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7047 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7048 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7050 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7053 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7054 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7056 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7058 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7059 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7062 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7063 as soon as it is encountered.
7065 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7067 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7070 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7071 recognizes a tab character.
7073 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7074 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7075 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7076 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7078 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7080 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7083 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7085 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7087 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7088 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7091 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7092 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7093 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7094 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7095 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7097 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7098 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7100 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7101 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7102 list (.included file names were always shown).
7104 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7105 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7106 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7109 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7110 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7112 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7114 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7116 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7118 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7119 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7120 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7121 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7122 failures to open the logs.
7124 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7125 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7126 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7127 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7128 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7129 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7130 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7136 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7137 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7138 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7141 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7142 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7143 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7145 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7146 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7147 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7149 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7150 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7151 causing some misleading effects.
7153 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7154 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7155 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7157 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7158 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7159 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7160 queue-runner function directly.
7166 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7169 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7170 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7171 was always written to the default place.
7173 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7174 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7175 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7177 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7179 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7181 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7182 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7183 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7185 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7186 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7189 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7190 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7191 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7193 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7194 command line option is disabled.
7196 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7197 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7199 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7201 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7203 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7204 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7206 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7208 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7209 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7210 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7211 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7212 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7213 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7215 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7216 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7219 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7220 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7222 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7223 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7225 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7226 received was valid base64.
7228 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7229 name of the variable that was being set.
7231 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7233 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7234 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7235 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7236 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7237 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7238 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7240 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7242 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7243 nor realm was specified.
7245 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7246 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7247 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7248 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7250 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7251 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7252 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7254 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7255 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7256 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7258 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7259 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7260 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7261 some systems use these upper case variants.
7263 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7264 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7265 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7266 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7268 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7270 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7271 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7273 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7274 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7277 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7279 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7280 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7281 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7282 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7284 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7287 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7288 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7289 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7291 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7292 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7294 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7295 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7296 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7297 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7299 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7300 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7301 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7303 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7305 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7306 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7307 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7308 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7311 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7312 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7313 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7315 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7317 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7318 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7320 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7321 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7323 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7324 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7325 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7326 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7327 when emails are that large.
7334 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7335 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7337 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7338 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7339 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7341 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7342 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7343 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7345 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7346 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7347 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7348 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7349 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7351 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7352 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7353 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7354 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7355 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7358 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7359 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7360 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7361 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7362 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7363 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7364 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7365 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7366 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7367 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7368 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7369 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7370 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7371 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7373 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7374 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7377 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7378 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7379 error should be diagnosed.
7381 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7382 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7383 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7384 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7385 appeared instead of "NULL".
7387 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7388 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7389 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7390 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7391 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7392 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7395 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7396 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7397 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7403 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7404 or receiver verification errors.
7406 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7409 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7410 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7411 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7412 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7414 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7415 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7416 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7417 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7418 shouldn't happen again.
7420 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7421 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7422 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7424 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7425 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7427 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7429 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7430 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7432 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7433 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7436 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7437 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7438 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7440 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7441 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7442 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7443 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7445 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7446 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7447 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7448 to define what should happen).
7450 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7451 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7452 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7454 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7456 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7458 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7459 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7461 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7462 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7463 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7464 structure in all cases.
7466 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7467 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7468 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7469 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7471 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7472 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7475 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7476 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7478 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7479 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7481 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7482 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7483 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7485 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7486 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7487 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7489 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7490 the book and for uniformity.
7492 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7494 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7495 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7496 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7497 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7498 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7499 non-existent command as the problem.
7501 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7502 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7503 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7505 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7507 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7508 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7509 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7511 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7512 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7513 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7514 timestamps using strftime().
7516 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7517 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7519 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7520 transport-time rewrites.
7522 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7523 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7524 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7525 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7527 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7528 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7530 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7531 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7532 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7533 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7536 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7537 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7538 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7539 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7540 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7541 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7542 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7544 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7545 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7546 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7547 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7548 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7550 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7551 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7552 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7553 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7554 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7555 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7556 remaining text gets split now.
7558 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7559 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7560 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7561 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7563 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7564 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7565 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7566 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7569 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7570 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7571 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7572 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7573 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7574 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7575 passed through if needed.
7577 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7578 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7579 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7580 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7581 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7582 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7584 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7585 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7586 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7587 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7588 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7590 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7591 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7592 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7593 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7594 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7596 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7597 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7600 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7601 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7602 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7603 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7604 mayhem of various kinds.
7606 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7607 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7608 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7609 the right test for positive values.
7611 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7612 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7613 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7614 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7615 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7616 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7617 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7618 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7619 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7620 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7623 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7626 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7627 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7630 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7631 the existing equality matching.
7633 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7634 dealing with inode numbers.
7636 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7637 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7638 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7640 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7641 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7642 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7643 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7646 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7647 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7648 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7649 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7650 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7651 relay addresses has also been removed.
7653 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7655 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7656 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7657 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7659 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7660 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7661 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7662 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7663 processing applies to CR:
7665 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7666 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7668 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7669 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7670 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7671 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7673 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7674 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7675 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7677 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7678 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7679 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7680 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7681 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7682 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7685 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7688 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7689 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7690 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7691 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7694 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7696 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7698 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7700 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7701 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7702 not considered personal.
7704 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7706 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7708 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7710 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7711 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7712 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7713 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7714 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7715 header lines, and spool format errors.
7717 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7718 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7719 for more flexibility.
7721 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7722 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7723 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7725 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7728 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7729 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7730 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7731 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7732 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7733 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7734 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7735 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7736 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7738 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7739 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7740 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7741 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7742 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7743 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7744 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7746 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7747 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7748 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7750 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7751 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7752 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7753 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7754 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7755 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7756 instead of killing the process with assert().
7758 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7759 than Unicode encoding.
7761 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7762 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7763 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7764 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7766 77. Added process_log_path.
7768 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7769 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7771 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7772 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7774 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7775 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7776 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7778 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7779 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7780 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7781 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7782 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7785 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7786 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7789 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7790 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7791 they will be used during message reception.
7797 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.