1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
32 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
33 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
34 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
36 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
37 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
38 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
39 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
41 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
42 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
43 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
44 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
45 so could be handling tainted values.
47 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
48 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
49 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
51 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
52 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
53 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
56 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
57 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
58 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
59 to align better with RFC 6125.
61 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
62 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
63 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
64 by adding a release action in that path.
66 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
67 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
68 dynamically-created buffers.
70 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
71 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
72 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
73 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
75 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
76 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
77 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
78 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
80 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
81 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
82 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
84 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
85 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
86 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
87 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
89 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
90 excluded, not matching the documentation.
92 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
93 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
95 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
96 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
97 this was a coding error.
99 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
100 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
101 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
102 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
103 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
104 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
105 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
107 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
108 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
109 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
110 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
112 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
113 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
114 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
115 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
116 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
118 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
119 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
122 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
123 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
124 domain-parking registrar.
126 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
127 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
128 after removing the newline.
130 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
131 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
132 option set, which was previously used.
134 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
137 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
138 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
139 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
140 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
142 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
143 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
144 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
145 exim.dev.20160529.3).
147 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
148 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
149 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
151 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
152 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
153 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
156 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
157 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
158 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
160 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
161 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
162 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
163 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
166 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
167 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
168 there, handle PRX and TFO.
170 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
171 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
172 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
173 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
174 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
176 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
177 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
178 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
179 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
182 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
183 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
185 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
188 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
189 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
190 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
191 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
192 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
194 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
196 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
197 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
198 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
199 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
200 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
201 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
203 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
204 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
206 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
207 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
208 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
210 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
211 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
214 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
215 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
216 of a new variable: $auth4.
218 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
219 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
220 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
221 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
222 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
224 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
225 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
226 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
227 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
229 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
230 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
231 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
233 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
234 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
235 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
236 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
239 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
240 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
241 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
244 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
245 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
246 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
247 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
249 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
250 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
252 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
253 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
254 looked as if if might be one.
256 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
257 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
258 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
259 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
260 messages can show the proxy information.
262 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
263 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
264 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
265 "queue_time_exclusive".
267 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
268 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
269 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
271 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
272 making it unusable in complex expressions.
274 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
275 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
278 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
280 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
282 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
284 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
285 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
286 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
287 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
289 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
290 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
292 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
293 better. Reported by Qualys.
295 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
296 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
299 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
301 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
304 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
306 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
307 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
308 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
309 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
311 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
312 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
314 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
315 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
316 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
317 mode until after various protocol state checks.
318 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
320 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
322 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
323 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
325 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
328 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
329 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
330 executed child processes (if any).
332 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
335 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
336 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
337 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
338 been reported on other platforms.
340 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
342 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
343 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
344 Not supported on Solaris 10.
346 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
347 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
348 since fakereject was originally introduced.
350 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
351 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
353 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
354 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
355 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
358 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
359 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
360 which only permit IP addresses.
366 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
367 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
368 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
370 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
372 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
373 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
376 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
377 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
378 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
380 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
382 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
384 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
385 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
386 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
388 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
389 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
390 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
392 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
393 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
395 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
396 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
399 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
400 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
401 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
402 should both provide the file and set the option.
403 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
405 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
406 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
408 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
409 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
410 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
411 Authentication-Results: header.
413 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
414 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
415 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
416 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
418 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
419 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
420 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
421 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
422 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
423 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
424 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
426 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
427 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
428 copies while it is still usable.
430 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
431 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
432 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
434 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
435 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
437 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
438 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
439 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
440 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
442 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
443 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
444 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
447 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
448 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
449 - the pipe transport command
450 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
451 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
453 - paths used by single-key lookups
454 Previously this was permitted.
456 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
457 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
458 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
459 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
461 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
462 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
463 support larger malloc requests.
465 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
466 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
467 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
468 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
470 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
471 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
472 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
473 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
476 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
477 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
478 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
479 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
480 data being length-specified.
482 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
483 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
484 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
485 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
487 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
488 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
489 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
490 not being properly tracked.
492 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
493 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
494 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
495 minute could be seen.
497 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
498 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
499 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
501 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
502 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
504 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
505 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
508 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
510 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
511 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
513 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
514 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
515 filesystem as sufficient validation.
517 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
518 argument is supplied.
520 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
521 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
522 access under Exim's current working directory.
524 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
525 Previously no event was raised.
527 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
528 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
529 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
532 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
533 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
534 the size of the signature hash.
536 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
537 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
539 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
540 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
541 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
542 dropped between messages.
544 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
545 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
546 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
547 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
549 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
550 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
551 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
552 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
553 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
554 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
555 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
556 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
557 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
559 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
560 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
561 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
563 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
564 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
571 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
572 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
574 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
575 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
578 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
581 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
583 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
585 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
586 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
588 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
589 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
590 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
591 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
592 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
593 suitably configured).
595 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
596 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
598 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
599 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
602 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
603 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
605 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
606 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
607 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
608 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
611 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
612 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
613 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
615 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
618 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
619 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
621 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
622 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
623 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
624 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
627 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
628 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
629 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
630 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
633 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
634 shared (NFS) environment.
636 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
637 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
640 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
641 on some platforms for bit 31.
643 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
644 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
645 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
646 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
647 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
648 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
649 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
650 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
652 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
654 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
655 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
657 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
658 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
661 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
662 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
665 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
666 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
667 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
670 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
671 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
672 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
674 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
675 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
676 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
677 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
678 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
680 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
683 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
684 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
685 be requested on all coneections.
687 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
688 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
690 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
692 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
693 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
694 one for these; the option was ignored.
696 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
697 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
698 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
699 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
701 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
702 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
703 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
706 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
707 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
708 error ignored was made.
710 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
712 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
713 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
714 values, to catch one form of exploit.
716 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
717 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
718 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
720 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
721 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
724 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
725 them in our smtp response.
727 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
728 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
729 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
730 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
731 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
733 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
734 link count into consideration.
736 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
737 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
739 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
740 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
741 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
744 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
746 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
748 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
750 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
751 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
752 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
753 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
755 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
757 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
758 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
761 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
762 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
763 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
765 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
766 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
767 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
769 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
770 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
771 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
772 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
773 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
774 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
775 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
776 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
778 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
779 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
780 resulted in an indefinite loop.
782 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
783 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
784 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
790 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
791 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
793 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
794 non-signal-safe functions being used.
796 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
797 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
798 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
800 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
801 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
802 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
804 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
805 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
806 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
807 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
808 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
811 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
812 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
814 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
815 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
816 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
817 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
818 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
819 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
820 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
822 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
823 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
825 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
828 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
829 Previously this would segfault.
831 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
834 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
835 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
836 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
837 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
838 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
839 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
841 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
843 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
844 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
845 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
846 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
848 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
850 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
851 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
852 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
853 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
855 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
857 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
859 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
860 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
861 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
863 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
864 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
865 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
867 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
869 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
870 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
871 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
872 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
874 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
875 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
876 promised '?' replacement.
878 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
880 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
881 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
882 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
883 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
884 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
886 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
887 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
888 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
890 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
891 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
892 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
894 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
895 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
896 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
898 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
899 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
900 hope that is portable enough.
902 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
903 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
904 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
905 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
907 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
908 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
909 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
911 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
912 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
913 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
914 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
916 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
917 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
919 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
920 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
921 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
922 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
924 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
925 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
926 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
928 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
929 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
930 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
931 the previous G, M, k.
933 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
934 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
937 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
938 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
939 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
940 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
942 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
943 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
945 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
946 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
947 off past the nul-terimation.
949 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
950 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
951 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
952 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
953 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
955 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
957 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
958 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
959 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
962 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
963 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
965 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
966 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
967 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
969 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
970 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
971 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
973 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
974 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
980 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
981 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
982 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
983 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
984 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
985 be defined in redis_servers.
987 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
988 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
990 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
991 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
992 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
993 extant use locations.
995 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
996 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
998 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
999 Previously only the last row was returned.
1001 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1002 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1003 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1004 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1007 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1008 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1009 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1010 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1011 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1012 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1013 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1014 Main pool for expansions.
1015 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1016 active in the testsuite.
1017 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1019 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1020 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1021 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1022 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1025 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1026 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1029 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1030 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1031 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1033 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1034 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1035 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1037 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1038 rows affected is given instead).
1040 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1041 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1043 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1044 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1045 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1046 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1047 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1049 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1050 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1051 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1053 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1054 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1055 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1056 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1059 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1060 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1061 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1064 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1066 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1067 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1069 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1070 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1071 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1073 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1074 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1075 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1078 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1079 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1081 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1082 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1083 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1085 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1086 for the build is renamed.
1088 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1089 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1090 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1092 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1093 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1094 result replacing the original.
1096 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1097 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1098 and the resources needed to be freed.
1100 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1102 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1105 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1106 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1107 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1108 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1110 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1111 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1113 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1114 newer versions of the scanner.
1116 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1117 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1118 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1119 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1120 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1121 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1122 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1124 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1125 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1126 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1127 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1128 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1129 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1130 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1131 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1132 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1133 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1135 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1136 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1138 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1140 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1141 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1143 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1144 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1146 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1147 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1148 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1150 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1151 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1152 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1153 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1155 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1156 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1159 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1160 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1162 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1163 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1164 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1165 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1166 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1168 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1169 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1172 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1173 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1175 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1178 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1179 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1180 "bare" representation.
1182 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1183 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1184 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1185 corrupted the output.
1191 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1192 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1193 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1194 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1196 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1197 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1199 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1200 This permits better logging.
1202 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1203 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1204 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1205 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1206 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1207 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1209 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1210 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1213 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1214 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1215 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1217 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1218 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1220 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1221 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1222 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1223 client, there is no benefit for these.
1224 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1225 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1226 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1229 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1230 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1232 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1233 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1234 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1236 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1237 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1239 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1240 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1241 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1242 signature and again for transmission.
1244 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1245 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1246 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1248 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1249 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1250 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1251 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1252 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1253 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1254 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1256 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1257 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1258 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1259 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1261 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1262 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1263 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1264 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1265 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1266 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1269 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1270 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1271 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1272 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1275 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1276 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1277 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1278 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1281 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1282 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1285 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1286 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1287 banner-time rejection.
1289 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1292 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1293 is the name of a transport.
1296 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1298 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1299 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1301 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1302 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1303 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1306 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1307 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1308 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1309 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1311 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1312 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1313 initial verify call returned a defer.
1315 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1316 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1318 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1319 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1321 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1322 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1324 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1325 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1327 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1328 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1331 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1332 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1334 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1335 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1336 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1338 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1339 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1340 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1341 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1343 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1344 and confused the parent.
1346 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1347 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1349 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1352 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1353 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1354 out-of-order delivery.
1356 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1357 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1358 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1361 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1362 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1365 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1366 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1367 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1369 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1370 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1371 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1372 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1373 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1374 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1376 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1377 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1378 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1380 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1381 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1382 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1384 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1385 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1386 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1387 though a different problem.
1393 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1394 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1396 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1398 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1399 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1401 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1402 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1404 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1405 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1406 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1407 before acknowledging the chunk.
1409 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1410 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1411 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1413 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1414 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1415 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1418 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1419 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1420 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1422 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1423 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1425 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1426 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1427 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1428 body hash calculated value.
1430 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1431 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1432 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1434 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1436 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1437 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1439 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1440 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1441 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1443 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1444 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1445 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1446 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1447 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1448 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1450 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1451 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1452 past that check, despite the cost.
1454 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1455 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1456 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1458 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1459 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1460 TLS library to consume.
1462 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1464 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1466 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1467 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1468 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1469 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1470 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1471 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1472 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1474 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1476 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1478 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1479 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1480 should be warning-free.
1482 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1484 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1485 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1487 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1488 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1489 general solution here.
1491 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1492 already-broken messages in the queue.
1494 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1496 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1502 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1503 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1505 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1506 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1507 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1509 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1510 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1511 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1512 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1513 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1514 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1515 if one fails this test.
1516 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1517 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1519 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1520 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1522 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1523 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1525 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1526 in rewrites and routers.
1528 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1529 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1531 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1532 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1534 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1536 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1539 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1540 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1541 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1542 connection after a verify cache hit.
1543 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1545 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1546 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1548 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1549 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1550 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1551 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1552 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1554 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1555 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1557 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1558 Previously they were not counted.
1560 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1561 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1562 that needed the lookup.
1564 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1565 distinguished as "(=".
1567 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1568 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1570 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1572 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1573 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1575 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1576 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1578 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1579 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1582 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1583 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1584 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1585 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1587 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1589 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1590 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1591 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1593 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1594 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1595 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1598 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1599 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1600 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1603 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1604 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1605 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1607 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1608 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1611 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1613 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1614 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1616 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1617 are not in the system include path.
1619 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1620 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1621 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1622 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1624 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1625 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1626 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1628 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1630 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1631 an incoming connection.
1633 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1636 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1637 fallback to "prime256v1".
1639 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1640 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1646 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1647 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1648 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1649 client dropping the TLS connection.
1651 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1652 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1654 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1655 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1656 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1657 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1660 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1661 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1662 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1663 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1664 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1665 check on the next write.
1667 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1668 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1669 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1670 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1671 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1673 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1674 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1676 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1677 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1678 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1680 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1681 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1682 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1683 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1685 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1686 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1688 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1689 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1691 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1692 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1693 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1696 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1698 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1700 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1702 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1703 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1705 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1706 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1708 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1710 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1711 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1713 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1715 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1716 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1718 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1720 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1721 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1722 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1723 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1724 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1725 they will retry in-clear.
1726 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1727 at installation time.
1729 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1730 with the $config_file variable.
1732 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1733 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1734 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1735 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1736 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1738 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1739 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1740 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1741 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1742 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1744 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1746 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1747 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1748 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1749 list order is no longer honoured.
1751 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1752 for DKIM processing.
1754 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1755 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1757 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1758 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1759 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1760 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1762 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1763 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1765 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1766 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1768 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1769 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1771 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1773 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1774 cached by the daemon.
1776 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1777 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1779 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1780 keys are given for lookup.
1782 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1783 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1784 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1785 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1787 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1788 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1789 server-side so match that on older versions.
1791 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1792 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1793 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1795 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1796 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1798 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1799 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1800 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1801 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1802 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1803 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1804 initial truncated version.
1806 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1808 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1810 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1811 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1813 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1815 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1817 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1818 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1821 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1822 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1825 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1826 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1828 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1829 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1832 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1833 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1834 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1836 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1837 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1838 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1839 extraction. Accept either.
1845 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1848 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1850 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1853 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1854 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1855 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1856 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1858 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1859 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1860 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1862 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1863 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1864 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1867 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1870 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1871 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1872 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1873 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1874 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1876 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1877 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1878 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1880 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1882 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1883 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1885 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1886 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1888 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1891 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1892 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1894 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1895 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1896 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1898 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1899 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1900 specify a port-range.
1902 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1903 timeout value per server.
1905 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1906 now have the list separator specified.
1908 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1911 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1914 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1916 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1917 rather than the verbs used.
1919 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1920 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1922 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1924 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1925 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1927 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1928 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1930 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1931 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1933 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1935 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1937 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1938 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1939 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1940 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1942 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1944 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1945 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1947 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1948 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1950 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1952 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1954 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1956 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1957 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1959 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1960 added for tls authenticator.
1962 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1968 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1969 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1970 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1971 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1972 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1973 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1974 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1976 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1977 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1978 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1979 function when detected.
1981 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1982 cause callback expansion.
1984 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1985 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1986 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1987 instead of bool when processing it.
1989 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1990 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1992 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1994 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1996 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1998 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1999 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2001 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2002 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2003 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2004 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2005 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2006 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2008 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2009 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2012 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2013 version 3.3.6 or later.
2015 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2016 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2017 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2018 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2019 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2020 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2023 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2024 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2026 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2027 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2028 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2031 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2032 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2033 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2035 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2036 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2038 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2039 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2042 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2044 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2045 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2047 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2048 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2051 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2053 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2056 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2057 output list separator was used.
2062 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2063 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2066 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2067 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2069 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2071 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2072 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2078 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2080 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2081 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2082 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2083 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2084 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2085 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2087 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2088 utilities have not been installed.
2090 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2091 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2093 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2094 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2096 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2097 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2098 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2099 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2101 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2103 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2104 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2106 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2109 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2111 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2112 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2113 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2115 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2116 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2117 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2118 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2119 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2120 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2122 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2124 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2125 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2127 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2130 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2132 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2134 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2135 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2137 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2138 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2140 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2142 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2144 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2145 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2147 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2148 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2149 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2151 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2152 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2153 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2156 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2158 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2159 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2162 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2163 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2166 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2167 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2169 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2170 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2172 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2174 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2175 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2176 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2178 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2179 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2181 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2182 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2185 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2186 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2187 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2189 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2191 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2192 Christian Aistleitner.
2194 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2196 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2197 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2199 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2200 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2202 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2203 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2205 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2206 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2208 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2209 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2211 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2212 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2213 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2215 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2217 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2218 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2221 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2223 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2224 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2231 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2233 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2234 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2236 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2239 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2240 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2243 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2245 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2246 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2247 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2248 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2249 using channel bindings instead).
2251 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2252 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2253 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2254 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2255 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2258 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2260 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2262 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2263 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2265 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2266 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2267 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2269 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2271 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2273 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2274 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2276 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2278 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2280 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2282 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2283 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2285 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2287 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2288 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2291 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2292 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2294 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2295 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2298 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2300 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2302 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2303 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2305 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2308 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2309 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2311 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2312 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2314 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2316 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2318 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2321 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2324 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2326 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2327 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2328 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2329 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2331 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2333 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2334 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2335 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2336 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2339 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2340 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2341 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2343 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2344 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2345 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2346 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2348 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2349 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2350 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2351 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2352 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2353 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2354 delivery, as in LMTP.
2356 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2357 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2359 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2361 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2365 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2366 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2367 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2368 username as equal to the username.
2370 This change corrects that bug.
2372 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2373 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2374 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2376 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2378 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2379 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2380 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2381 NULL dereference and crash.
2383 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2385 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2386 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2387 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2389 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2391 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2392 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2393 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2394 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2395 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2396 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2397 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2398 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2399 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2400 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2401 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2403 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2404 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2406 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2407 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2410 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2411 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2412 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2413 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2414 an empty string is now equivalent.
2416 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2417 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2418 not performing validation itself.
2420 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2421 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2423 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2426 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2428 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2429 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2430 other false fix of the same issue.
2431 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2434 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2435 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2437 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2438 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2439 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2441 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2442 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2443 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2445 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2447 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2449 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2450 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2452 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2455 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2456 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2457 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2458 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2459 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2461 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2462 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2464 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2465 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2468 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2469 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2470 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2471 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2473 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2475 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2476 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2477 from multiple comments on this bug.
2479 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2481 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2482 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2485 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2486 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2488 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2489 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2495 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2497 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2503 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2504 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2505 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2507 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2509 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2512 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2514 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2516 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2518 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2519 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2521 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2522 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2524 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2525 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2527 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2528 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2529 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2531 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2533 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2534 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2536 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2538 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2540 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2541 non-compliant senders.
2542 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2544 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2545 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2546 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2548 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2549 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2550 in spool file corruption.
2552 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2553 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2554 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2557 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2558 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2559 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2561 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2562 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2564 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2566 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2568 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2570 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2571 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2572 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2574 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2575 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2576 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2577 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2579 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2580 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2582 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2583 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2584 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2585 resolver implementation change.
2587 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2588 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2590 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2592 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2594 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2595 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2597 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2598 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2600 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2601 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2603 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2604 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2605 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2606 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2607 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2609 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2611 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2612 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2613 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2615 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2617 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2618 read-only, out of scope).
2619 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2621 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2622 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2623 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2624 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2626 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2628 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2629 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2630 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2631 real issues in debug logging.
2633 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2634 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2636 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2637 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2638 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2640 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2641 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2642 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2645 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2646 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2648 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2649 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2650 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2651 needs to override this, it can.
2653 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2654 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2655 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2657 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2658 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2659 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2660 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2662 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2668 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2669 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2671 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2673 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2676 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2677 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2679 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2680 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2681 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2683 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2684 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2685 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2686 not safe for signals.
2688 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2689 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2690 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2691 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2694 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2696 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2697 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2698 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2699 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2700 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2702 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2703 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2704 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2705 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2706 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2707 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2709 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2710 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2711 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2712 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2714 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2715 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2716 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2717 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2719 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2720 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2721 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2722 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2723 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2724 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2725 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2726 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2727 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2729 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2730 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2731 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2732 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2734 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2735 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2736 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2737 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2738 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2739 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2740 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2741 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2742 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2743 details in the main documentation.
2745 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2747 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2749 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2750 repository when doing development or release builds.
2752 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2753 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2755 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2756 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2759 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2761 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2762 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2764 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2765 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2767 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2768 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2770 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2771 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2773 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2774 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2776 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2778 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2781 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2782 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2783 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2785 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2787 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2789 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2790 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2796 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2798 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2799 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2801 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2803 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2805 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2808 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2809 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2811 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2812 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2814 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2815 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2817 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2820 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2821 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2823 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2824 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2825 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2826 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2828 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2829 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2835 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2838 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2839 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2840 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2842 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2843 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2845 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2846 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2847 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2849 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2850 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2852 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2853 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2855 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2856 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2858 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2859 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2861 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2862 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2864 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2867 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2868 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2870 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2871 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2873 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2874 SQL string expansion failure details.
2875 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2877 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2878 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2880 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2881 extern declarations in function scope.
2882 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2884 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2885 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2886 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2889 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2890 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2892 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2893 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2895 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2896 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2898 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2899 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2901 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2902 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2905 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2907 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2909 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2910 Patch by Simon Arlott
2912 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2913 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2919 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2920 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2922 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2923 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2925 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2927 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2928 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2929 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2931 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2932 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2933 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2935 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2936 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2937 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2938 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2940 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2941 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2942 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2943 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2945 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2946 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2947 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2950 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2953 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2954 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2955 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2956 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2957 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2963 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2964 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2965 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2967 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2968 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2970 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2972 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2974 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2976 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2978 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2980 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2981 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2982 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2983 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2985 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2986 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2987 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2988 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2989 more caution in buffer sizes.
2991 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2993 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2995 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2997 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2999 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3001 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3003 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3005 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3006 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3007 ignore trailing whitespace.
3009 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3011 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3014 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3015 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3017 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3018 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3019 Notification from John Horne.
3021 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3024 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3025 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3028 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3031 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3032 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3033 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3035 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3036 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3037 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3040 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3041 option (effectively making it always true).
3043 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3044 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3046 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3047 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3049 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3050 run-time user, instead of root.
3052 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3053 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3055 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3056 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3059 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3060 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3061 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3063 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3065 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3071 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3072 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3075 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3076 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3079 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3080 Patch from Alain Williams
3082 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3084 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3085 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3087 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3088 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3090 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3092 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3094 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3095 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3097 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3099 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3101 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3102 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3103 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3105 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3106 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3108 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3109 Patch by Simon Arlott
3111 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3112 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3118 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3120 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3122 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3124 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3126 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3132 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3133 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3135 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3136 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3139 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3140 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3141 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3143 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3144 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3146 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3147 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3148 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3149 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3151 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3152 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3153 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3155 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3157 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3159 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3160 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3162 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3164 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3165 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3166 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3167 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3169 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3170 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3172 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3174 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3176 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3177 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3179 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3180 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3182 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3183 that they are available at delivery time.
3185 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3187 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3188 incoming_port log selectors.
3190 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3191 setting expands to an empty string.
3193 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3194 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3196 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3197 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3199 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3200 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3202 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3203 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3205 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3206 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3208 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3209 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3211 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3213 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3214 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3216 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3217 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3219 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3221 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3222 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3224 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3226 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3228 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3231 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3232 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3234 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3235 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3237 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3238 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3240 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3241 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3243 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3244 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3246 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3247 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3249 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3250 plus update to original patch.
3252 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3254 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3255 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3257 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3259 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3261 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3263 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3265 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3266 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3268 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3269 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3271 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3272 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3274 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3275 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3277 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3279 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3281 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3283 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3289 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3290 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3291 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3293 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3294 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3295 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3296 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3297 build errors in sieve.c.
3299 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3300 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3301 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3303 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3305 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3307 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3309 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3315 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3317 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3318 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3319 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3320 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3321 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3322 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3323 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3324 for iplsearch lookups.
3326 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3327 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3328 previously such lookups could never work.
3330 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3331 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3332 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3334 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3337 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3338 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3339 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3340 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3341 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3342 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3344 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3345 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3347 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3348 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3349 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3350 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3351 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3352 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3354 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3357 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3359 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3360 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3363 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3364 by clients under certain conditions.
3366 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3367 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3369 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3371 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3372 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3374 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3376 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3378 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3380 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3381 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3383 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3385 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3386 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3388 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3390 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3392 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3393 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3394 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3395 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3397 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3398 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3399 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3401 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3402 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3404 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3406 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3408 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3410 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3411 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3412 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3418 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3419 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3422 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3423 issue a MAIL command.
3425 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3427 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3429 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3430 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3431 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3432 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3433 item. This has been fixed.
3435 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3436 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3438 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3439 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3441 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3442 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3443 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3445 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3447 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3448 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3449 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3450 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3451 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3453 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3454 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3455 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3457 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3458 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3459 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3460 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3462 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3464 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3466 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3467 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3468 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3469 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3470 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3472 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3474 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3475 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3476 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3479 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3481 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3483 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3485 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3487 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3489 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3490 no_callout_flush is set.
3492 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3493 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3494 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3497 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3499 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3500 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3501 other ACL rejections are.
3503 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3504 with slight modification.
3506 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3507 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3509 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3510 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3513 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3514 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3516 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3518 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3519 expansion side effects.
3521 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3522 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3523 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3526 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3527 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3528 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3530 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3531 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3532 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3533 were accidentally chopped off.
3535 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3536 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3537 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3538 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3539 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3540 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3541 pipelining has not been advertised.
3543 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3545 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3546 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3547 This has been fixed.
3549 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3550 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3551 reported on Solaris.
3553 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3554 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3555 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3556 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3557 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3558 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3559 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3561 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3564 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3566 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3568 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3569 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3570 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3571 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3572 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3573 criteria to be more general.
3575 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3576 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3577 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3578 host_all_ignored option.
3580 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3581 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3582 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3583 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3584 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3585 is what is supposed to happen).
3587 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3588 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3589 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3590 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3591 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3594 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3595 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3596 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3597 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3598 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3599 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3602 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3604 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3605 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3607 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3608 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3610 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3612 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3614 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3615 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3616 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3617 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3618 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3619 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3620 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3621 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3622 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3623 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3624 least in a lot of common cases.
3626 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3627 advertised in response to EHLO.
3633 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3634 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3636 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3637 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3639 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3640 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3641 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3643 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3644 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3645 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3646 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3647 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3653 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3654 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3657 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3658 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3659 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3661 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3662 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3663 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3664 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3665 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3666 rather than extend the field.
3672 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3673 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3674 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3675 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3678 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3679 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3680 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3682 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3683 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3684 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3686 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3687 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3688 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3691 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3692 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3693 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3694 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3695 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3696 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3697 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3698 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3699 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3700 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3701 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3703 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3706 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3707 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3708 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3709 ignores EPIPE as well.
3711 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3712 (quoted-printable decoding).
3714 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3715 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3717 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3719 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3721 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3723 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3724 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3726 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3729 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3730 miscellaneous code fixes
3732 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3735 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3736 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3737 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3738 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3739 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3740 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3741 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3742 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3744 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3745 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3746 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3747 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3749 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3750 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3751 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3752 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3753 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3754 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3755 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3756 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3757 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3759 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3762 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3763 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3764 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3765 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3766 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3767 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3768 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3769 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3771 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3772 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3775 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3776 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3777 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3778 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3779 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3780 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3781 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3782 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3783 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3784 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3785 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3786 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3787 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3789 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3790 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3791 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3792 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3793 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3794 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3795 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3797 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3798 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3799 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3800 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3801 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3802 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3803 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3804 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3805 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3806 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3808 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3809 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3810 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3811 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3812 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3814 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3815 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3816 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3817 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3818 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3819 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3820 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3822 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3823 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3824 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3825 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3826 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3827 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3830 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3831 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3832 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3835 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3836 if any retry times were supplied.
3838 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3839 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3840 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3842 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3844 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3846 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3847 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3848 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3849 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3850 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3851 before) are ignored.
3853 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3854 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3856 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3857 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3858 committing the later change.]
3860 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3861 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3862 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3863 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3864 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3865 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3866 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3867 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3868 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3870 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3871 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3872 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3873 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3874 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3875 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3876 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3877 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3878 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3880 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3881 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3882 hammering the server.
3884 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3885 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3887 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3889 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3890 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3891 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3893 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3894 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3895 one case where this was not true.
3897 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3898 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3899 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3900 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3903 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3904 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3905 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3906 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3907 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3908 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3909 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3910 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3911 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3914 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3915 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3916 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3917 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3919 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3920 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3922 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3923 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3924 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3926 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3928 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3930 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3932 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3933 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3934 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3935 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3937 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3938 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3940 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3941 be meaningful with "accept".
3943 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3944 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3946 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3947 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3948 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3950 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3951 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3952 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3953 there is data to show.
3954 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3956 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3957 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3958 as well as the number of messages.
3960 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3961 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3962 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3964 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3965 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3966 have a flag are now skipped.
3968 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3969 Added the -emptyok flag.
3971 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3972 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3974 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3975 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3976 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3978 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3981 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3982 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3984 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3986 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3987 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3989 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3991 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3992 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3993 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3994 contravention of the specifications.
3996 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3997 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3998 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4000 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4001 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4002 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4004 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4006 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4007 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4008 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4009 some point in the past.
4011 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4012 transport during callout processing was broken.
4014 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4015 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4017 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4018 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4020 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4021 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4023 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4029 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4030 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4032 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4033 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4034 there is data to show.
4035 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4037 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4038 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4040 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4041 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4043 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4044 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4046 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4047 submissions from trusted users.
4049 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4050 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4052 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4053 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4054 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4055 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4056 there is now a framework to start from.
4058 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4059 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4060 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4062 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4064 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4066 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4068 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4069 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4070 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4072 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4075 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4076 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4077 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4079 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4080 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4081 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4084 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4085 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4086 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4087 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4088 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4090 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4091 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4093 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4095 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4096 operations in malware.c.
4098 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4101 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4102 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4103 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4106 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4107 statements to "add_header".
4109 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4110 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4112 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4113 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4116 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4120 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4121 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4122 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4125 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4126 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4128 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4129 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4131 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4132 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4133 any possible encoding problems.
4135 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4136 but not after initializing Perl.
4138 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4139 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4140 apparently, which is not desirable.
4142 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4145 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4148 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4150 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4151 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4152 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4153 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4155 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4156 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4157 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4159 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4160 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4161 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4164 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4165 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4166 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4167 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4168 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4174 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4175 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4177 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4180 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4181 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4182 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4183 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4184 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4185 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4186 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4187 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4190 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4192 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4193 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4194 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4196 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4197 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4198 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4201 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4202 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4204 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4205 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4206 option (which defaults to 0600).
4208 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4210 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4211 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4212 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4213 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4214 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4215 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4216 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4218 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4224 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4225 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4226 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4227 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4228 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4229 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4232 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4233 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4235 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4237 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4238 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4239 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4240 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4241 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4244 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4245 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4247 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4248 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4249 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4250 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4251 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4253 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4254 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4255 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4256 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4258 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4259 be the same on different OS.
4261 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4264 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4265 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4267 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4270 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4271 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4272 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4273 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4274 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4275 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4278 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4279 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4280 when Exim was called.
4282 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4283 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4285 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4286 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4287 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4288 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4290 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4291 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4292 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4293 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4296 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4297 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4298 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4300 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4301 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4302 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4304 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4307 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4308 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4309 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4310 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4311 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4312 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4313 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4314 values from the SRV records were lost.
4316 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4317 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4318 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4320 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4321 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4322 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4324 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4325 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4326 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4327 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4328 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4329 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4330 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4331 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4332 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4333 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4335 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4336 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4337 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4339 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4340 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4342 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4343 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4344 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4345 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4348 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4349 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4350 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4352 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4353 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4354 PH/23 above applies.
4356 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4357 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4358 (for which there is an explicit test).
4360 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4362 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4363 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4364 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4365 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4366 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4368 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4369 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4370 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4371 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4373 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4374 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4375 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4377 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4379 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4381 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4382 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4383 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4385 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4386 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4387 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4388 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4389 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4391 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4392 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4393 the message gets confusing).
4395 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4396 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4397 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4398 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4400 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4401 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4402 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4403 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4406 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4407 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4408 the different processes.
4410 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4412 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4414 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4415 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4417 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4418 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4420 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4421 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4422 messages matching specified criteria.
4424 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4426 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4427 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4429 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4430 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4431 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4432 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4433 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4434 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4435 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4436 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4437 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4438 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4440 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4441 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4442 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4444 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4446 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4447 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4448 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4449 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4450 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4451 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4452 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4455 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4456 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4458 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4460 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4462 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4464 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4465 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4466 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4467 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4468 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4469 size of the count of files.
4471 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4473 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4476 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4477 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4478 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4479 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4481 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4482 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4483 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4485 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4486 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4487 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4488 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4489 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4491 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4492 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4494 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4495 will now be deprecated.
4497 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4499 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4500 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4501 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4503 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4504 with very large, slow to parse queues
4506 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4508 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4510 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4511 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4512 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4515 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4516 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4517 Sieve code now uses this.
4519 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4520 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4522 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4523 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4525 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4527 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4528 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4529 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4530 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4531 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4533 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4534 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4535 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4536 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4538 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4540 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4542 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4543 is preferred over IPv4.
4545 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4546 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4547 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4548 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4549 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4550 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4551 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4553 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4554 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4555 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4557 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4559 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4560 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4561 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4562 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4563 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4564 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4565 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4566 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4567 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4568 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4569 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4571 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4572 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4573 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4579 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4581 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4582 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4584 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4585 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4586 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4588 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4590 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4593 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4596 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4597 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4598 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4601 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4602 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4604 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4605 inside the third argument.
4607 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4608 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4611 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4612 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4614 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4615 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4617 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4619 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4620 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4623 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4625 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4626 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4627 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4628 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4629 identical. For example:
4631 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4633 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4634 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4635 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4637 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4638 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4639 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4640 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4642 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4643 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4644 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4647 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4649 o fixes some comments
4650 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4651 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4652 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4653 and documents the missing references header update
4657 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4658 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4661 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4662 Electronic Mail") by including:
4664 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4666 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4667 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4668 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4669 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4670 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4672 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4674 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4676 The auto-replied keyword:
4678 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4679 message by an automatic process,
4681 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4683 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4684 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4686 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4687 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4690 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4691 to the default Received: header definition.
4693 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4695 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4696 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4697 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4699 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4700 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4701 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4703 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4704 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4705 and treats the condition as false.
4707 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4709 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4710 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4711 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4712 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4713 not changing the active code.
4715 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4716 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4718 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4719 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4721 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4724 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4725 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4726 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4727 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4728 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4729 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4730 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4731 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4732 the text comparison.
4734 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4735 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4736 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4737 The same fix has been applied.
4743 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4744 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4747 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4748 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4750 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4752 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4753 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4754 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4755 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4756 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4758 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4759 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4760 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4761 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4764 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4772 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4773 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4775 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4777 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4779 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4780 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4781 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4783 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4784 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4785 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4787 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4788 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4791 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4792 ${stat: expansion item.
4794 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4795 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4797 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4798 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4801 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4803 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4806 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4807 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4809 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4811 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4812 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4813 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4814 the end of the subprocess.
4816 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4817 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4818 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4819 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4820 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4822 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4824 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4826 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4827 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4829 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4831 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4833 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4834 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4837 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4839 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4840 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4841 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4843 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4844 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4846 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4847 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4849 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4850 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4852 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4853 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4855 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4856 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4857 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4858 contributed by a Radius user.
4860 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4861 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4863 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4864 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4866 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4869 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4870 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4873 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4874 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4875 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4876 header lines when this was not necessary.
4878 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4880 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4881 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4882 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4885 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4888 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4889 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4890 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4891 return code was incorrect.
4893 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4895 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4897 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4899 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4901 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4902 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4903 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4904 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4905 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4908 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4910 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4911 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4912 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4913 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4914 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4915 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4916 which is clearly wrong.
4918 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4920 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4921 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4922 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4925 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4926 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4928 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4930 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4931 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4933 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4934 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4936 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4937 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4939 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4940 recipients, not senders.
4942 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4943 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4945 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4947 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4949 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4950 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4951 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4952 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4954 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4956 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4957 clock is set back in time.
4959 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4960 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4962 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4963 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4965 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4966 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4969 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4970 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4973 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4976 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4978 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4979 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4980 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4982 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4983 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4984 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4985 helo verification defer as a failure.
4987 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4988 actual error message.
4994 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4996 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4997 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4998 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4999 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5001 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5003 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5004 can still be requested.
5006 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5007 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5008 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5009 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5011 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5012 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5013 circumstances, but probably never did.
5015 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5016 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5017 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5020 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5022 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5023 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5025 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5027 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5029 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5030 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5031 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5032 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5033 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5034 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5036 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5037 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5038 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5039 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5040 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5041 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5043 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5044 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5046 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5047 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5049 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5050 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5052 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5054 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5056 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5058 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5060 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5062 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5064 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5066 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5067 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5068 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5070 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5071 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5072 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5073 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5075 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5076 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5077 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5079 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5080 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5081 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5082 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5084 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5085 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5088 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5089 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5090 should work with maildirs and everything.
5092 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5093 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5095 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5098 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5099 function for BDB 4.3.
5101 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5103 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5104 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5107 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5108 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5109 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5110 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5111 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5112 formatting function string_vformat().
5114 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5115 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5116 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5117 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5118 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5119 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5120 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5121 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5123 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5124 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5127 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5128 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5130 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5131 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5132 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5133 test. It is now used for both.
5135 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5136 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5137 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5138 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5139 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5140 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5142 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5143 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5144 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5147 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5148 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5149 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5151 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5152 experimental DomainKeys support:
5154 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5155 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5156 the control was given.
5158 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5160 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5162 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5164 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5165 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5166 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5169 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5170 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5171 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5172 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5173 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5174 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5177 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5178 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5179 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5180 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5181 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5182 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5184 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5185 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5186 do -d+all out of habit.
5188 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5189 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5192 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5193 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5194 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5195 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5196 record types that Exim uses.
5198 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5199 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5200 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5201 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5202 non-existent file that was broken.
5204 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5205 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5207 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5208 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5209 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5211 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5213 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5214 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5215 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5216 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5217 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5220 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5221 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5222 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5223 at a slight CPU cost.
5225 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5226 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5228 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5231 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5233 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5234 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5240 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5241 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5243 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5245 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5247 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5248 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5250 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5251 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5252 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5253 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5254 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5255 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5258 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5259 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5260 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5261 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5264 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5265 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5266 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5267 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5268 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5269 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5270 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5273 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5274 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5276 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5277 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5278 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5279 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5280 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5281 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5283 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5284 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5285 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5286 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5288 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5291 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5292 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5294 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5295 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5296 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5297 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5300 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5302 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5303 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5305 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5306 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5307 to what was transported.)
5309 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5311 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5312 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5313 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5314 spamd_address settings.
5316 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5317 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5318 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5319 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5320 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5322 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5324 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5325 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5326 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5327 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5328 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5330 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5331 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5333 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5334 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5335 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5336 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5337 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5338 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5339 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5342 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5343 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5344 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5345 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5346 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5347 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5348 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5351 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5353 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5354 driver and ACL definitions.
5356 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5357 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5359 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5360 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5361 understands it better than I do:
5363 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5364 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5366 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5367 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5368 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5369 => three warnings about OTP not working
5370 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5372 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5373 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5374 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5375 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5377 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5378 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5380 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5381 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5382 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5384 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5385 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5388 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5389 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5392 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5393 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5394 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5396 warn !verify = sender
5397 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5399 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5400 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5402 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5404 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5405 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5407 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5408 nomenclature these days.)
5410 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5411 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5413 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5414 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5415 . First host does not offer TLS;
5416 . First host accepts first address;
5417 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5418 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5419 . Second host accepts second address.
5420 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5421 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5424 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5425 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5426 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5427 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5428 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5430 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5431 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5433 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5434 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5436 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5437 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5438 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5440 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5441 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5444 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5446 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5447 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5448 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5449 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5450 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5451 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5452 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5454 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5455 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5456 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5457 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5458 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5460 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5461 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5464 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5465 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5466 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5467 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5468 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5469 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5471 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5473 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5474 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5475 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5476 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5477 printable escape sequences.
5479 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5480 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5483 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5484 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5487 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5488 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5489 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5490 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5491 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5493 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5494 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5495 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5497 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5499 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5500 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5503 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5504 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5505 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5506 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5507 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5508 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5509 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5510 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5511 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5514 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5515 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5516 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5517 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5521 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5522 ----------------------------------------
5524 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5525 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5526 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5527 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5528 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5529 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5532 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5533 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5534 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5535 historical information.
5541 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5543 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5544 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5546 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5547 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5550 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5551 filter fails to execute.
5553 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5554 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5555 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5556 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5557 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5559 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5561 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5562 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5563 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5564 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5566 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5567 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5568 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5569 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5570 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5572 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5574 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5576 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5577 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5578 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5579 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5581 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5582 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5583 sender verification.
5585 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5586 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5588 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5590 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5593 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5594 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5596 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5597 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5599 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5600 information about exactly what failed.
5602 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5604 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5605 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5606 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5608 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5609 It is now set to "smtps".
5611 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5612 ignore_target_hosts.
5614 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5615 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5616 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5617 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5620 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5621 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5622 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5624 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5625 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5626 wake it up if nothing else does.
5628 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5629 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5630 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5633 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5634 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5636 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5638 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5639 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5640 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5641 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5642 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5643 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5644 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5645 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5647 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5648 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5649 than one IP address.
5651 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5652 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5653 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5654 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5656 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5657 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5658 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5659 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5660 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5663 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5664 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5665 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5666 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5668 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5669 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5672 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5673 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5674 $sender_host_address.
5676 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5677 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5678 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5679 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5680 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5683 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5685 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5686 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5688 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5689 just the host names, not the priorities.
5691 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5692 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5693 controlled by a keyword.
5695 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5696 multiple records are returned.
5698 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5699 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5702 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5704 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5705 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5707 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5708 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5709 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5711 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5713 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5715 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5717 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5718 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5719 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5720 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5721 because the tests only now provoked it.
5723 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5724 (this can affect the format of dates).
5726 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5727 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5728 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5729 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5731 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5733 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5734 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5735 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5736 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5738 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5739 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5740 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5742 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5745 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5746 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5747 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5748 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5749 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5750 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5753 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5754 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5755 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5758 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5759 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5760 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5762 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5763 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5764 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5765 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5766 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5767 so I produce this patch..."
5769 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5770 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5773 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5774 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5775 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5776 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5779 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5781 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5782 long debug lines gets shown.
5784 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5785 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5787 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5789 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5790 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5791 of $primary_hostname.
5793 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5794 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5795 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5796 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5797 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5798 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5799 by change 4.50/55 above.
5801 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5802 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5803 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5804 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5805 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5806 running as the user.
5809 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5810 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5811 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5814 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5815 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5817 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5818 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5819 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5820 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5821 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5823 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5824 This has been fixed.
5826 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5827 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5828 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5829 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5832 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5834 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5835 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5836 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5837 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5839 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5840 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5842 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5843 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5844 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5846 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5847 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5848 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5851 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5852 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5853 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5855 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5856 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5857 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5858 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5860 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5861 during host lookups.
5863 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5864 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5866 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5868 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5869 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5870 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5871 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5872 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5875 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5876 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5878 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5879 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5880 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5882 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5884 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5885 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5886 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5887 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5888 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5889 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5892 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5893 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5894 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5895 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5896 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5898 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5901 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5903 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5904 "vacation" handling.
5906 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5907 OS variants using glibc.
5909 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5912 ----------------------------------------------------
5913 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5914 ----------------------------------------------------
5920 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5921 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5924 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5925 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5928 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5929 filter fails to execute.
5931 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5932 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5933 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5934 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5935 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5937 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5938 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5939 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5940 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5942 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5943 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5944 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5945 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5946 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5948 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5950 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5951 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5952 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5953 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5955 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5956 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5957 sender verification.
5959 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5960 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5962 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5963 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5965 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5966 ignore_target_hosts.
5968 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5969 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5970 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5971 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5974 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5975 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5976 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5978 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5979 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5980 wake it up if nothing else does.
5982 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5983 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5984 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5987 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5988 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5990 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5992 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5993 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5996 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5997 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6000 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6001 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6002 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6003 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6004 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6007 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6008 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6011 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6012 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6013 $sender_host_address.
6015 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6017 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6018 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6019 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6021 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6024 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6025 (this can affect the format of dates).
6027 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6028 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6029 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6030 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6032 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6033 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6034 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6036 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6037 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6038 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6039 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6041 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6042 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6043 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6045 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6048 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6049 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6050 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6051 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6052 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6053 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6056 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6057 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6058 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6059 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6062 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6063 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6064 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6065 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6066 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6067 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6068 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6070 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6071 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6072 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6073 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6074 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6075 running as the user.
6078 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6079 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6080 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6083 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6084 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6085 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6086 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6087 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6089 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6090 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6091 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6092 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6095 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6096 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6097 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6098 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6099 because the tests only now provoked it.
6105 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6106 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6107 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6108 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6109 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6110 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6111 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6113 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6114 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6117 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6119 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6121 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6122 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6125 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6126 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6127 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6128 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6129 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6131 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6132 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6134 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6136 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6138 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6141 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6142 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6144 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6145 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6146 affecting debugging statements).
6148 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6150 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6151 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6152 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6153 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6154 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6155 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6156 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6157 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6158 after the received time, and all would be well.
6160 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6161 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6162 condition in an expansion string.
6164 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6166 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6167 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6168 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6169 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6170 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6171 job under whatever limits there are.
6173 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6175 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6178 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6179 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6180 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6181 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6184 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6185 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6186 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6187 binary data in such strings.
6189 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6191 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6192 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6193 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6194 failure, which is pointless.
6196 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6198 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6200 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6201 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6202 Sender: header lines.
6204 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6205 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6206 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6208 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6209 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6210 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6211 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6212 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6215 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6216 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6217 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6218 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6219 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6221 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6222 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6223 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6226 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6227 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6229 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6230 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6232 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6234 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6236 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6238 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6241 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6243 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6245 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6246 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6247 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6248 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6250 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6251 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6257 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6258 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6259 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6261 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6262 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6263 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6264 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6265 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6266 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6268 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6269 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6270 verification failure".
6272 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6273 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6274 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6275 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6277 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6278 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6279 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6280 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6281 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6282 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6283 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6284 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6285 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6286 treated as a timeout.
6288 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6289 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6290 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6291 not set for Exim filters).
6293 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6294 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6295 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6297 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6299 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6300 try to make them clearer.
6302 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6303 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6305 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6307 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6309 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6310 only the Cygwin environment.
6312 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6313 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6314 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6315 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6316 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6318 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6319 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6320 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6321 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6322 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6323 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6324 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6326 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6327 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6329 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6331 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6332 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6333 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6335 To: susanne@some.where
6337 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6338 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6339 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6340 of addresses in From: header lines).
6342 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6343 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6344 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6346 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6347 treated as non-personal.
6349 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6350 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6352 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6354 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6356 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6357 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6358 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6360 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6361 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6363 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6364 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6365 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6366 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6367 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6368 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6370 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6371 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6372 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6373 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6374 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6375 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6376 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6377 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6379 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6381 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6382 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6384 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6385 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6386 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6388 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6389 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6391 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6392 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6393 rather than long int.
6395 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6397 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6403 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6404 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6405 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6406 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6407 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6408 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6414 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6415 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6417 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6418 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6419 socklen_t is defined.
6421 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6424 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6427 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6428 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6429 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6430 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6431 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6433 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6434 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6435 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6436 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6438 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6439 of flapping under certain conditions.
6441 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6442 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6443 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6445 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6447 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6449 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6450 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6451 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6452 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6454 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6455 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6456 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6457 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6458 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6459 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6460 preserved with the message after it was received.
6462 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6463 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6464 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6465 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6466 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6467 test suite worked just fine.
6469 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6470 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6471 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6473 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6474 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6477 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6478 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6479 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6480 does not fully solve it.
6482 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6483 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6484 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6485 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6486 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6488 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6489 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6490 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6492 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6493 string, for example:
6495 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6497 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6498 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6499 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6500 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6501 the routers could not see them.
6503 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6504 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6506 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6507 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6510 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6511 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6512 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6513 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6514 that needed quoting.
6516 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6517 was not being matched caselessly.
6519 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6522 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6523 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6524 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6525 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6526 when use_sender is false.
6528 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6530 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6532 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6534 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6535 the configuration file.
6537 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6538 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6540 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6542 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6543 bytes in the message body.
6545 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6546 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6549 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6551 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6553 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6554 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6555 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6556 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6563 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6564 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6566 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6567 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6568 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6569 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6570 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6572 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6573 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6575 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6576 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6577 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6579 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6580 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6581 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6583 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6586 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6587 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6588 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6589 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6590 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6591 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6592 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6598 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6599 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6600 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6601 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6602 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6603 default (and expected) setting.
6605 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6606 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6607 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6608 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6610 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6611 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6613 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6616 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6617 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6618 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6619 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6620 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6621 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6623 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6624 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6625 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6627 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6628 part (NOT match_host).
6630 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6632 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6633 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6634 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6635 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6636 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6637 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6638 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6639 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6640 the same named file.
6642 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6643 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6646 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6647 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6648 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6649 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6652 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6653 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6654 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6656 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6658 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6660 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6662 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6663 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6665 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6666 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6667 before starting the TLS session.
6669 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6671 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6672 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6674 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6675 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6676 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6677 colon in the middle).
6683 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6684 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6685 multiple configurations are in use.
6687 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6688 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6689 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6690 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6691 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6692 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6694 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6695 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6697 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6698 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6699 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6701 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6702 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6705 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6706 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6708 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6710 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6711 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6713 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6721 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6722 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6723 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6724 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6725 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6727 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6730 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6731 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6732 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6733 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6734 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6735 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6737 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6738 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6739 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6740 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6741 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6742 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6743 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6746 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6747 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6748 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6749 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6750 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6752 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6754 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6755 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6756 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6758 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6760 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6761 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6762 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6765 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6766 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6768 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6769 Three changes have been made:
6771 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6772 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6773 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6774 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6775 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6777 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6780 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6781 the modified behaviour.
6787 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6790 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6791 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6793 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6794 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6795 try to track down a specific problem.
6797 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6798 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6799 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6801 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6804 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6805 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6806 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6807 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6808 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6809 some earlier ones do not.
6811 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6813 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6814 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6815 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6816 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6817 address literals are enabled, of course).
6819 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6821 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6822 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6823 by a command such as
6827 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6829 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6831 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6832 remained set. It is now erased.
6834 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6835 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6837 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6838 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6839 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6840 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6841 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6842 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6843 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6844 appropriate error code.
6846 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6847 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6848 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6849 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6850 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6851 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6853 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6854 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6855 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6857 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6858 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6859 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6860 terminate the header.
6862 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6863 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6864 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6866 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6867 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6868 (4.30/29). In particular:
6870 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6873 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6874 to write a maildirsize file.
6876 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6877 the transport, the new value overrides.
6879 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6882 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6883 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6884 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6887 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6888 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6889 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6892 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6893 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6894 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6896 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6897 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6900 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6901 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6902 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6904 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6906 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6908 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6910 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6911 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6914 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6915 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6916 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6917 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6918 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6919 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6920 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6923 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6924 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6925 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6926 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6927 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6930 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6931 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6932 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6933 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6934 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6935 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6936 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6937 cached value only when the same options are set.
6939 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6941 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6942 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6943 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6944 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6945 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6947 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6948 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6949 it is clearly obsolete.
6951 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6954 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6955 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6956 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6959 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6960 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6961 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6962 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6963 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6965 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6966 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6967 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6968 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6970 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6972 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6974 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6975 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6978 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6979 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6980 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6981 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6982 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6983 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6986 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6987 with the -f command-line option.
6989 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6990 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6991 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6992 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6993 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6994 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6996 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6997 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7000 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7001 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7002 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7003 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7004 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7005 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7006 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7007 buffer is too small.
7009 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7010 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7012 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7013 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7014 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7015 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7016 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7017 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7018 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7019 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7020 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7022 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7023 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7024 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7026 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7027 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7030 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7031 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7032 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7033 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7034 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7036 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7037 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7038 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7039 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7042 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7044 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7046 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7047 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7049 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7050 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7051 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7053 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7054 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7055 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7056 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7057 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7059 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7060 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7061 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7062 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7063 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7064 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7065 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7067 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7068 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7069 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7070 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7071 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7072 the test of how many are available.
7074 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7075 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7076 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7077 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7078 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7079 new message is started.
7081 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7082 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7084 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7085 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7087 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7088 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7089 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7092 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7093 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7094 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7095 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7096 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7097 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7098 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7100 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7101 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7102 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7103 interpreted as octal.
7105 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7108 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7109 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7110 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7111 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7112 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7113 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7115 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7116 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7117 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7118 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7120 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7121 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7122 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7123 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7125 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7126 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7129 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7130 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7132 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7134 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7135 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7136 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7137 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7139 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7140 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7141 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7142 supplied", which is not helpful.
7144 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7145 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7146 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7148 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7149 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7150 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7151 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7152 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7153 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7154 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7155 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7157 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7158 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7159 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7160 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7161 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7163 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7164 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7165 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7166 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7167 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7168 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7170 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7171 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7172 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7174 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7176 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7177 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7178 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7181 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7183 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7184 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7185 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7186 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7187 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7188 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7189 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7190 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7192 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7193 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7194 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7195 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7196 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7198 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7201 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7202 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7203 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7204 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7205 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7206 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7207 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7208 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7209 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7215 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7216 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7217 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7219 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7222 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7223 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7224 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7226 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7227 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7228 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7229 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7230 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7231 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7233 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7234 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7235 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7236 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7237 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7238 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7239 the Exim test suite.
7241 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7242 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7243 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7244 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7246 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7247 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7248 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7249 specify it in this variable.
7251 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7252 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7253 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7254 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7256 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7257 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7258 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7259 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7261 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7262 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7263 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7264 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7265 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7267 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7269 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7272 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7273 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7274 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7275 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7276 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7278 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7279 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7281 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7282 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7283 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7284 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7285 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7287 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7288 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7290 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7291 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7292 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7294 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7295 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7297 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7298 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7300 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7301 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7302 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7304 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7305 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7307 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7308 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7309 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7310 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7312 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7314 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7315 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7316 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7317 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7319 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7321 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7322 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7324 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7326 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7327 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7328 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7329 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7330 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7331 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7333 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7335 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7336 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7339 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7341 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7342 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7344 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7345 550 Sender verify failed
7347 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7348 the final line of the response.
7350 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7351 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7352 all other user lookups.
7354 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7357 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7358 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7359 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7360 result into an int without checking.
7362 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7363 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7364 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7366 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7367 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7368 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7369 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7371 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7374 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7375 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7377 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7378 to the empty sender.
7380 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7381 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7382 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7383 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7384 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7385 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7386 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7389 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7390 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7391 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7392 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7395 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7396 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7398 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7401 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7402 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7404 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7406 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7407 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7410 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7411 as soon as it is encountered.
7413 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7415 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7418 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7419 recognizes a tab character.
7421 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7422 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7423 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7424 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7426 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7428 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7431 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7433 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7435 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7436 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7439 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7440 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7441 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7442 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7443 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7445 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7446 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7448 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7449 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7450 list (.included file names were always shown).
7452 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7453 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7454 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7457 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7458 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7460 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7462 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7464 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7466 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7467 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7468 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7469 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7470 failures to open the logs.
7472 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7473 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7474 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7475 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7476 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7477 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7478 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7484 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7485 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7486 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7489 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7490 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7491 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7493 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7494 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7495 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7497 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7498 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7499 causing some misleading effects.
7501 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7502 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7503 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7505 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7506 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7507 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7508 queue-runner function directly.
7514 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7517 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7518 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7519 was always written to the default place.
7521 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7522 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7523 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7525 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7527 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7529 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7530 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7531 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7533 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7534 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7537 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7538 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7539 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7541 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7542 command line option is disabled.
7544 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7545 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7547 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7549 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7551 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7552 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7554 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7556 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7557 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7558 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7559 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7560 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7561 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7563 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7564 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7567 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7568 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7570 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7571 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7573 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7574 received was valid base64.
7576 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7577 name of the variable that was being set.
7579 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7581 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7582 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7583 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7584 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7585 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7586 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7588 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7590 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7591 nor realm was specified.
7593 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7594 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7595 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7596 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7598 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7599 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7600 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7602 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7603 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7604 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7606 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7607 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7608 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7609 some systems use these upper case variants.
7611 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7612 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7613 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7614 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7616 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7618 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7619 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7621 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7622 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7625 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7627 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7628 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7629 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7630 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7632 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7635 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7636 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7637 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7639 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7640 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7642 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7643 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7644 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7645 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7647 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7648 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7649 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7651 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7653 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7654 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7655 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7656 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7659 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7660 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7661 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7663 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7665 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7666 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7668 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7669 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7671 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7672 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7673 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7674 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7675 when emails are that large.
7682 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7683 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7685 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7686 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7687 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7689 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7690 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7691 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7693 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7694 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7695 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7696 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7697 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7699 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7700 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7701 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7702 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7703 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7706 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7707 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7708 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7709 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7710 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7711 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7712 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7713 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7714 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7715 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7716 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7717 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7718 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7719 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7721 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7722 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7725 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7726 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7727 error should be diagnosed.
7729 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7730 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7731 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7732 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7733 appeared instead of "NULL".
7735 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7736 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7737 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7738 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7739 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7740 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7743 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7744 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7745 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7751 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7752 or receiver verification errors.
7754 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7757 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7758 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7759 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7760 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7762 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7763 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7764 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7765 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7766 shouldn't happen again.
7768 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7769 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7770 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7772 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7773 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7775 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7777 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7778 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7780 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7781 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7784 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7785 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7786 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7788 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7789 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7790 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7791 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7793 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7794 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7795 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7796 to define what should happen).
7798 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7799 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7800 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7802 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7804 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7806 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7807 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7809 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7810 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7811 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7812 structure in all cases.
7814 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7815 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7816 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7817 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7819 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7820 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7823 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7824 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7826 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7827 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7829 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7830 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7831 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7833 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7834 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7835 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7837 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7838 the book and for uniformity.
7840 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7842 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7843 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7844 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7845 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7846 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7847 non-existent command as the problem.
7849 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7850 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7851 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7853 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7855 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7856 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7857 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7859 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7860 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7861 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7862 timestamps using strftime().
7864 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7865 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7867 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7868 transport-time rewrites.
7870 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7871 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7872 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7873 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7875 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7876 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7878 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7879 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7880 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7881 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7884 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7885 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7886 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7887 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7888 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7889 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7890 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7892 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7893 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7894 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7895 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7896 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7898 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7899 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7900 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7901 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7902 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7903 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7904 remaining text gets split now.
7906 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7907 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7908 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7909 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7911 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7912 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7913 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7914 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7917 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7918 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7919 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7920 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7921 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7922 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7923 passed through if needed.
7925 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7926 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7927 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7928 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7929 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7930 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7932 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7933 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7934 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7935 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7936 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7938 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7939 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7940 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7941 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7942 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7944 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7945 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7948 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7949 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7950 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7951 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7952 mayhem of various kinds.
7954 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7955 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7956 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7957 the right test for positive values.
7959 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7960 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7961 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7962 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7963 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7964 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7965 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7966 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7967 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7968 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7971 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7974 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7975 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7978 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7979 the existing equality matching.
7981 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7982 dealing with inode numbers.
7984 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7985 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7986 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7988 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7989 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7990 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7991 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7994 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7995 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7996 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7997 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7998 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7999 relay addresses has also been removed.
8001 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8003 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8004 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8005 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8007 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8008 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8009 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8010 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8011 processing applies to CR:
8013 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8014 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8016 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8017 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8018 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8019 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8021 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8022 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8023 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8025 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8026 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8027 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8028 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8029 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8030 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8033 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8036 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8037 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8038 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8039 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8042 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8044 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8046 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8048 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8049 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8050 not considered personal.
8052 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8054 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8056 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8058 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8059 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8060 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8061 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8062 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8063 header lines, and spool format errors.
8065 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8066 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8067 for more flexibility.
8069 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8070 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8071 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8073 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8076 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8077 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8078 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8079 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8080 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8081 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8082 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8083 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8084 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8086 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8087 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8088 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8089 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8090 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8091 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8092 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8094 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8095 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8096 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8098 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8099 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8100 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8101 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8102 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8103 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8104 instead of killing the process with assert().
8106 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8107 than Unicode encoding.
8109 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8110 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8111 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8112 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8114 77. Added process_log_path.
8116 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8117 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8119 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8120 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8122 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8123 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8124 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8126 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8127 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8128 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8129 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8130 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8133 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8134 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8137 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8138 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8139 they will be used during message reception.
8145 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.