1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the euid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
306 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
307 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
308 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
310 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
312 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
313 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
316 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
317 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
318 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
320 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
322 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
324 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
325 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
326 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
328 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
329 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
330 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
332 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
333 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
335 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
336 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
339 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
340 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
341 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
342 should both provide the file and set the option.
343 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
345 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
346 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
348 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
349 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
350 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
351 Authentication-Results: header.
353 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
354 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
355 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
356 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
358 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
359 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
360 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
361 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
362 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
363 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
364 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
366 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
367 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
368 copies while it is still usable.
370 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
371 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
372 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
374 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
375 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
377 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
378 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
379 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
380 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
382 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
383 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
384 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
387 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
388 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
389 - the pipe transport command
390 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
391 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
393 - paths used by single-key lookups
394 Previously this was permitted.
396 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
397 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
398 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
399 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
401 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
402 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
403 support larger malloc requests.
405 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
406 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
407 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
408 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
410 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
411 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
412 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
413 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
416 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
417 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
418 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
419 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
420 data being length-specified.
422 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
423 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
424 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
425 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
427 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
428 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
429 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
430 not being properly tracked.
432 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
433 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
434 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
435 minute could be seen.
437 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
438 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
439 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
441 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
442 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
444 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
445 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
448 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
450 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
451 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
453 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
454 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
455 filesystem as sufficient validation.
457 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
458 argument is supplied.
460 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
461 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
462 access under Exim's current working directory.
464 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
465 Previously no event was raised.
467 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
468 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
469 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
472 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
473 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
474 the size of the signature hash.
476 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
477 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
479 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
480 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
481 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
482 dropped between messages.
484 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
485 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
486 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
487 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
489 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
490 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
491 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
492 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
493 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
494 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
495 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
496 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
497 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
499 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
500 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
501 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
503 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
504 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
511 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
512 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
514 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
515 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
518 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
521 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
523 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
525 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
526 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
528 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
529 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
530 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
531 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
532 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
533 suitably configured).
535 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
536 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
538 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
539 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
542 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
543 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
545 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
546 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
547 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
548 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
551 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
552 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
553 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
555 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
558 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
559 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
561 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
562 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
563 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
564 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
567 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
568 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
569 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
570 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
573 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
574 shared (NFS) environment.
576 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
577 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
580 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
581 on some platforms for bit 31.
583 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
584 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
585 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
586 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
587 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
588 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
589 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
590 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
592 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
594 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
595 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
597 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
598 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
601 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
602 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
605 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
606 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
607 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
610 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
611 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
612 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
614 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
615 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
616 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
617 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
618 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
620 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
623 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
624 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
625 be requested on all coneections.
627 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
628 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
630 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
632 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
633 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
634 one for these; the option was ignored.
636 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
637 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
638 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
639 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
641 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
642 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
643 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
646 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
647 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
648 error ignored was made.
650 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
652 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
653 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
654 values, to catch one form of exploit.
656 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
657 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
658 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
660 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
661 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
664 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
665 them in our smtp response.
667 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
668 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
669 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
670 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
671 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
673 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
674 link count into consideration.
676 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
677 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
679 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
680 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
681 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
684 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
686 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
688 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
690 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
691 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
692 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
693 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
695 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
697 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
698 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
701 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
702 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
703 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
705 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
706 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
707 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
709 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
710 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
711 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
712 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
713 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
714 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
715 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
716 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
718 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
719 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
720 resulted in an indefinite loop.
722 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
723 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
724 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
730 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
731 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
733 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
734 non-signal-safe functions being used.
736 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
737 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
738 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
740 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
741 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
742 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
744 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
745 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
746 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
747 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
748 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
751 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
752 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
754 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
755 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
756 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
757 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
758 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
759 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
760 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
762 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
763 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
765 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
768 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
769 Previously this would segfault.
771 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
774 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
775 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
776 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
777 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
778 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
779 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
781 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
783 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
784 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
785 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
786 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
788 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
790 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
791 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
792 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
793 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
795 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
797 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
799 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
800 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
801 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
803 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
804 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
805 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
807 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
809 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
810 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
811 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
812 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
814 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
815 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
816 promised '?' replacement.
818 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
820 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
821 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
822 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
823 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
824 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
826 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
827 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
828 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
830 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
831 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
832 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
834 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
835 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
836 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
838 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
839 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
840 hope that is portable enough.
842 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
843 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
844 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
845 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
847 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
848 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
849 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
851 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
852 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
853 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
854 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
856 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
857 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
859 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
860 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
861 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
862 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
864 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
865 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
866 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
868 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
869 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
870 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
871 the previous G, M, k.
873 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
874 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
877 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
878 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
879 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
880 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
882 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
883 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
885 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
886 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
887 off past the nul-terimation.
889 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
890 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
891 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
892 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
893 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
895 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
897 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
898 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
899 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
902 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
903 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
905 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
906 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
907 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
909 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
910 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
911 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
913 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
914 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
920 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
921 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
922 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
923 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
924 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
925 be defined in redis_servers.
927 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
928 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
930 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
931 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
932 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
933 extant use locations.
935 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
936 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
938 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
939 Previously only the last row was returned.
941 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
942 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
943 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
944 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
947 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
948 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
949 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
950 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
951 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
952 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
953 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
954 Main pool for expansions.
955 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
956 active in the testsuite.
957 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
959 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
960 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
961 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
962 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
965 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
966 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
969 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
970 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
971 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
973 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
974 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
975 ClamAV interface method is removed.
977 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
978 rows affected is given instead).
980 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
981 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
983 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
984 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
985 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
986 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
987 for all multi-message initiating connections.
989 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
990 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
991 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
993 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
994 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
995 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
996 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
999 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1000 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1001 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1004 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1006 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1007 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1009 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1010 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1011 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1013 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1014 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1015 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1018 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1019 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1021 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1022 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1023 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1025 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1026 for the build is renamed.
1028 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1029 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1030 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1032 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1033 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1034 result replacing the original.
1036 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1037 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1038 and the resources needed to be freed.
1040 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1042 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1045 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1046 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1047 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1048 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1050 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1051 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1053 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1054 newer versions of the scanner.
1056 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1057 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1058 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1059 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1060 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1061 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1062 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1064 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1065 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1066 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1067 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1068 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1069 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1070 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1071 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1072 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1073 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1075 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1076 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1078 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1080 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1081 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1083 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1084 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1086 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1087 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1088 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1090 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1091 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1092 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1093 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1095 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1096 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1099 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1100 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1102 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1103 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1104 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1105 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1106 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1108 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1109 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1112 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1113 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1115 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1118 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1119 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1120 "bare" representation.
1122 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1123 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1124 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1125 corrupted the output.
1131 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1132 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1133 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1134 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1136 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1137 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1139 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1140 This permits better logging.
1142 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1143 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1144 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1145 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1146 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1147 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1149 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1150 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1153 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1154 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1155 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1157 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1158 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1160 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1161 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1162 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1163 client, there is no benefit for these.
1164 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1165 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1166 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1169 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1170 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1172 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1173 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1174 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1176 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1177 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1179 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1180 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1181 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1182 signature and again for transmission.
1184 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1185 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1186 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1188 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1189 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1190 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1191 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1192 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1193 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1194 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1196 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1197 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1198 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1199 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1201 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1202 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1203 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1204 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1205 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1206 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1209 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1210 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1211 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1212 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1215 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1216 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1217 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1218 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1221 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1222 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1225 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1226 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1227 banner-time rejection.
1229 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1232 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1233 is the name of a transport.
1236 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1238 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1239 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1241 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1242 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1243 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1246 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1247 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1248 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1249 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1251 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1252 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1253 initial verify call returned a defer.
1255 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1256 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1258 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1259 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1261 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1262 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1264 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1265 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1267 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1268 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1271 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1272 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1274 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1275 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1276 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1278 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1279 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1280 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1281 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1283 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1284 and confused the parent.
1286 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1287 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1289 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1292 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1293 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1294 out-of-order delivery.
1296 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1297 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1298 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1301 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1302 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1305 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1306 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1307 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1309 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1310 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1311 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1312 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1313 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1314 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1316 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1317 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1318 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1320 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1321 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1322 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1324 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1325 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1326 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1327 though a different problem.
1333 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1334 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1336 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1338 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1339 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1341 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1342 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1344 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1345 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1346 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1347 before acknowledging the chunk.
1349 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1350 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1351 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1353 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1354 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1355 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1358 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1359 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1360 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1362 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1363 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1365 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1366 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1367 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1368 body hash calculated value.
1370 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1371 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1372 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1374 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1376 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1377 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1379 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1380 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1381 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1383 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1384 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1385 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1386 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1387 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1388 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1390 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1391 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1392 past that check, despite the cost.
1394 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1395 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1396 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1398 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1399 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1400 TLS library to consume.
1402 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1404 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1406 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1407 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1408 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1409 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1410 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1411 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1412 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1414 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1416 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1418 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1419 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1420 should be warning-free.
1422 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1424 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1425 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1427 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1428 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1429 general solution here.
1431 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1432 already-broken messages in the queue.
1434 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1436 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1442 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1443 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1445 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1446 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1447 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1449 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1450 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1451 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1452 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1453 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1454 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1455 if one fails this test.
1456 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1457 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1459 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1460 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1462 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1463 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1465 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1466 in rewrites and routers.
1468 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1469 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1471 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1472 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1474 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1476 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1479 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1480 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1481 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1482 connection after a verify cache hit.
1483 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1485 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1486 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1488 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1489 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1490 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1491 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1492 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1494 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1495 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1497 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1498 Previously they were not counted.
1500 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1501 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1502 that needed the lookup.
1504 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1505 distinguished as "(=".
1507 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1508 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1510 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1512 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1513 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1515 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1516 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1518 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1519 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1522 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1523 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1524 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1525 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1527 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1529 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1530 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1531 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1533 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1534 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1535 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1538 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1539 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1540 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1543 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1544 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1545 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1547 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1548 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1551 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1553 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1554 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1556 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1557 are not in the system include path.
1559 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1560 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1561 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1562 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1564 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1565 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1566 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1568 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1570 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1571 an incoming connection.
1573 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1576 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1577 fallback to "prime256v1".
1579 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1580 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1586 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1587 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1588 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1589 client dropping the TLS connection.
1591 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1592 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1594 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1595 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1596 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1597 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1600 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1601 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1602 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1603 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1604 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1605 check on the next write.
1607 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1608 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1609 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1610 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1611 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1613 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1614 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1616 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1617 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1618 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1620 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1621 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1622 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1623 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1625 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1626 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1628 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1629 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1631 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1632 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1633 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1636 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1638 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1640 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1642 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1643 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1645 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1646 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1648 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1650 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1651 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1653 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1655 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1656 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1658 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1660 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1661 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1662 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1663 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1664 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1665 they will retry in-clear.
1666 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1667 at installation time.
1669 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1670 with the $config_file variable.
1672 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1673 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1674 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1675 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1676 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1678 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1679 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1680 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1681 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1682 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1684 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1686 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1687 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1688 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1689 list order is no longer honoured.
1691 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1692 for DKIM processing.
1694 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1695 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1697 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1698 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1699 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1700 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1702 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1703 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1705 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1706 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1708 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1709 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1711 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1713 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1714 cached by the daemon.
1716 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1717 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1719 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1720 keys are given for lookup.
1722 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1723 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1724 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1725 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1727 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1728 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1729 server-side so match that on older versions.
1731 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1732 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1733 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1735 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1736 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1738 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1739 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1740 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1741 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1742 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1743 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1744 initial truncated version.
1746 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1748 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1750 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1751 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1753 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1755 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1757 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1758 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1761 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1762 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1765 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1766 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1768 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1769 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1772 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1773 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1774 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1776 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1777 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1778 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1779 extraction. Accept either.
1785 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1788 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1790 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1793 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1794 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1795 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1796 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1798 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1799 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1800 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1802 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1803 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1804 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1807 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1810 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1811 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1812 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1813 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1814 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1816 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1817 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1818 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1820 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1822 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1823 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1825 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1826 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1828 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1831 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1832 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1834 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1835 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1836 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1838 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1839 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1840 specify a port-range.
1842 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1843 timeout value per server.
1845 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1846 now have the list separator specified.
1848 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1851 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1854 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1856 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1857 rather than the verbs used.
1859 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1860 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1862 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1864 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1865 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1867 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1868 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1870 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1871 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1873 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1875 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1877 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1878 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1879 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1880 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1882 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1884 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1885 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1887 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1888 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1890 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1892 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1894 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1896 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1897 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1899 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1900 added for tls authenticator.
1902 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1908 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1909 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1910 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1911 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1912 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1913 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1914 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1916 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1917 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1918 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1919 function when detected.
1921 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1922 cause callback expansion.
1924 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1925 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1926 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1927 instead of bool when processing it.
1929 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1930 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1932 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1934 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1936 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1938 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1939 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1941 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1942 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1943 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1944 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1945 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1946 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1948 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1949 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1952 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1953 version 3.3.6 or later.
1955 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1956 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1957 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1958 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1959 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1960 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1963 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1964 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1966 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1967 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1968 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1971 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1972 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1973 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1975 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1976 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1978 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1979 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1982 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1984 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1985 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1987 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1988 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1991 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1993 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1996 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1997 output list separator was used.
2002 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2003 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2006 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2007 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2009 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2011 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2012 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2018 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2020 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2021 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2022 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2023 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2024 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2025 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2027 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2028 utilities have not been installed.
2030 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2031 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2033 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2034 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2036 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2037 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2038 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2039 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2041 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2043 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2044 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2046 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2049 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2051 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2052 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2053 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2055 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2056 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2057 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2058 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2059 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2060 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2062 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2064 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2065 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2067 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2070 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2072 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2074 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2075 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2077 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2078 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2080 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2082 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2084 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2085 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2087 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2088 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2089 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2091 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2092 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2093 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2096 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2098 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2099 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2102 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2103 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2106 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2107 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2109 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2110 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2112 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2114 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2115 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2116 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2118 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2119 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2121 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2122 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2125 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2126 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2127 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2129 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2131 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2132 Christian Aistleitner.
2134 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2136 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2137 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2139 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2140 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2142 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2143 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2145 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2146 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2148 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2149 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2151 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2152 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2153 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2155 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2157 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2158 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2161 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2163 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2164 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2171 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2173 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2174 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2176 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2179 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2180 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2183 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2185 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2186 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2187 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2188 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2189 using channel bindings instead).
2191 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2192 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2193 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2194 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2195 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2198 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2200 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2202 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2203 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2205 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2206 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2207 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2209 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2211 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2213 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2214 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2216 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2218 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2220 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2222 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2223 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2225 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2227 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2228 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2231 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2232 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2234 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2235 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2238 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2240 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2242 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2243 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2245 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2248 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2249 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2251 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2252 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2254 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2256 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2258 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2261 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2264 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2266 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2267 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2268 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2269 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2271 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2273 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2274 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2275 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2276 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2279 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2280 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2281 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2283 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2284 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2285 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2286 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2288 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2289 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2290 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2291 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2292 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2293 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2294 delivery, as in LMTP.
2296 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2297 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2299 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2301 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2305 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2306 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2307 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2308 username as equal to the username.
2310 This change corrects that bug.
2312 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2313 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2314 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2316 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2318 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2319 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2320 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2321 NULL dereference and crash.
2323 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2325 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2326 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2327 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2329 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2331 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2332 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2333 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2334 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2335 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2336 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2337 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2338 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2339 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2340 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2341 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2343 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2344 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2346 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2347 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2350 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2351 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2352 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2353 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2354 an empty string is now equivalent.
2356 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2357 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2358 not performing validation itself.
2360 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2361 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2363 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2366 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2368 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2369 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2370 other false fix of the same issue.
2371 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2374 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2375 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2377 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2378 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2379 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2381 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2382 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2383 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2385 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2387 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2389 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2390 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2392 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2395 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2396 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2397 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2398 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2399 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2401 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2402 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2404 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2405 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2408 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2409 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2410 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2411 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2413 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2415 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2416 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2417 from multiple comments on this bug.
2419 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2421 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2422 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2425 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2426 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2428 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2429 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2435 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2437 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2443 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2444 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2445 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2447 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2449 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2452 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2454 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2456 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2458 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2459 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2461 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2462 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2464 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2465 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2467 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2468 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2469 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2471 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2473 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2474 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2476 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2478 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2480 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2481 non-compliant senders.
2482 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2484 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2485 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2486 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2488 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2489 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2490 in spool file corruption.
2492 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2493 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2494 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2497 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2498 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2499 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2501 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2502 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2504 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2506 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2508 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2510 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2511 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2512 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2514 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2515 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2516 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2517 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2519 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2520 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2522 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2523 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2524 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2525 resolver implementation change.
2527 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2528 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2530 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2532 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2534 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2535 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2537 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2538 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2540 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2541 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2543 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2544 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2545 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2546 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2547 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2549 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2551 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2552 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2553 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2555 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2557 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2558 read-only, out of scope).
2559 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2561 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2562 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2563 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2564 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2566 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2568 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2569 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2570 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2571 real issues in debug logging.
2573 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2574 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2576 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2577 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2578 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2580 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2581 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2582 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2585 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2586 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2588 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2589 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2590 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2591 needs to override this, it can.
2593 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2594 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2595 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2597 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2598 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2599 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2600 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2602 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2608 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2609 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2611 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2613 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2616 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2617 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2619 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2620 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2621 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2623 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2624 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2625 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2626 not safe for signals.
2628 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2629 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2630 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2631 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2634 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2636 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2637 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2638 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2639 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2640 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2642 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2643 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2644 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2645 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2646 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2647 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2649 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2650 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2651 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2652 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2654 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2655 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2656 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2657 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2659 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2660 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2661 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2662 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2663 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2664 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2665 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2666 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2667 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2669 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2670 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2671 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2672 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2674 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2675 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2676 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2677 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2678 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2679 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2680 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2681 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2682 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2683 details in the main documentation.
2685 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2687 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2689 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2690 repository when doing development or release builds.
2692 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2693 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2695 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2696 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2699 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2701 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2702 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2704 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2705 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2707 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2708 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2710 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2711 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2713 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2714 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2716 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2718 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2721 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2722 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2723 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2725 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2727 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2729 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2730 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2736 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2738 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2739 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2741 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2743 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2745 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2748 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2749 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2751 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2752 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2754 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2755 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2757 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2760 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2761 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2763 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2764 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2765 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2766 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2768 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2769 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2775 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2778 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2779 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2780 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2782 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2783 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2785 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2786 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2787 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2789 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2790 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2792 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2793 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2795 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2796 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2798 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2799 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2801 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2802 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2804 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2807 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2808 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2810 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2811 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2813 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2814 SQL string expansion failure details.
2815 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2817 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2818 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2820 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2821 extern declarations in function scope.
2822 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2824 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2825 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2826 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2829 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2830 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2832 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2833 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2835 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2836 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2838 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2839 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2841 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2842 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2845 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2847 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2849 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2850 Patch by Simon Arlott
2852 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2853 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2859 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2860 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2862 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2863 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2865 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2867 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2868 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2869 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2871 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2872 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2873 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2875 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2876 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2877 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2878 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2880 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2881 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2882 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2883 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2885 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2886 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2887 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2890 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2893 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2894 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2895 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2896 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2897 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2903 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2904 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2905 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2907 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2908 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2910 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2912 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2914 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2916 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2918 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2920 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2921 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2922 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2923 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2925 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2926 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2927 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2928 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2929 more caution in buffer sizes.
2931 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2933 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2935 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2937 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2939 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2941 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2943 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2945 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2946 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2947 ignore trailing whitespace.
2949 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2951 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2954 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2955 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2957 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2958 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2959 Notification from John Horne.
2961 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2964 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2965 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2968 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2971 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2972 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2973 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2975 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2976 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2977 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2980 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2981 option (effectively making it always true).
2983 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2984 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2986 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2987 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2989 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2990 run-time user, instead of root.
2992 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2993 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2995 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2996 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2999 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3000 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3001 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3003 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3005 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3011 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3012 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3015 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3016 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3019 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3020 Patch from Alain Williams
3022 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3024 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3025 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3027 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3028 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3030 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3032 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3034 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3035 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3037 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3039 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3041 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3042 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3043 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3045 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3046 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3048 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3049 Patch by Simon Arlott
3051 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3052 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3058 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3060 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3062 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3064 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3066 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3072 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3073 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3075 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3076 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3079 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3080 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3081 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3083 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3084 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3086 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3087 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3088 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3089 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3091 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3092 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3093 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3095 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3097 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3099 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3100 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3102 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3104 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3105 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3106 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3107 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3109 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3110 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3112 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3114 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3116 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3117 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3119 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3120 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3122 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3123 that they are available at delivery time.
3125 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3127 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3128 incoming_port log selectors.
3130 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3131 setting expands to an empty string.
3133 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3134 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3136 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3137 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3139 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3140 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3142 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3143 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3145 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3146 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3148 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3149 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3151 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3153 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3154 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3156 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3157 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3159 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3161 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3162 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3164 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3166 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3168 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3171 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3172 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3174 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3175 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3177 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3178 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3180 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3181 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3183 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3184 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3186 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3187 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3189 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3190 plus update to original patch.
3192 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3194 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3195 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3197 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3199 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3201 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3203 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3205 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3206 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3208 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3209 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3211 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3212 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3214 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3215 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3217 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3219 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3221 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3223 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3229 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3230 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3231 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3233 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3234 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3235 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3236 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3237 build errors in sieve.c.
3239 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3240 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3241 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3243 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3245 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3247 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3249 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3255 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3257 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3258 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3259 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3260 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3261 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3262 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3263 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3264 for iplsearch lookups.
3266 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3267 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3268 previously such lookups could never work.
3270 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3271 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3272 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3274 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3277 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3278 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3279 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3280 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3281 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3282 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3284 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3285 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3287 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3288 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3289 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3290 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3291 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3292 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3294 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3297 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3299 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3300 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3303 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3304 by clients under certain conditions.
3306 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3307 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3309 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3311 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3312 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3314 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3316 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3318 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3320 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3321 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3323 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3325 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3326 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3328 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3330 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3332 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3333 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3334 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3335 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3337 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3338 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3339 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3341 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3342 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3344 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3346 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3348 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3350 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3351 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3352 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3358 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3359 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3362 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3363 issue a MAIL command.
3365 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3367 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3369 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3370 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3371 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3372 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3373 item. This has been fixed.
3375 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3376 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3378 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3379 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3381 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3382 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3383 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3385 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3387 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3388 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3389 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3390 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3391 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3393 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3394 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3395 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3397 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3398 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3399 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3400 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3402 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3404 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3406 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3407 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3408 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3409 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3410 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3412 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3414 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3415 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3416 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3419 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3421 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3423 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3425 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3427 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3429 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3430 no_callout_flush is set.
3432 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3433 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3434 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3437 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3439 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3440 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3441 other ACL rejections are.
3443 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3444 with slight modification.
3446 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3447 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3449 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3450 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3453 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3454 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3456 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3458 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3459 expansion side effects.
3461 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3462 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3463 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3466 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3467 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3468 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3470 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3471 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3472 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3473 were accidentally chopped off.
3475 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3476 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3477 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3478 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3479 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3480 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3481 pipelining has not been advertised.
3483 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3485 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3486 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3487 This has been fixed.
3489 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3490 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3491 reported on Solaris.
3493 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3494 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3495 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3496 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3497 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3498 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3499 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3501 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3504 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3506 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3508 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3509 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3510 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3511 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3512 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3513 criteria to be more general.
3515 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3516 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3517 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3518 host_all_ignored option.
3520 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3521 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3522 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3523 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3524 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3525 is what is supposed to happen).
3527 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3528 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3529 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3530 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3531 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3534 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3535 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3536 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3537 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3538 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3539 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3542 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3544 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3545 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3547 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3548 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3550 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3552 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3554 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3555 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3556 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3557 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3558 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3559 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3560 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3561 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3562 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3563 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3564 least in a lot of common cases.
3566 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3567 advertised in response to EHLO.
3573 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3574 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3576 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3577 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3579 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3580 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3581 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3583 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3584 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3585 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3586 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3587 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3593 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3594 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3597 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3598 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3599 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3601 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3602 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3603 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3604 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3605 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3606 rather than extend the field.
3612 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3613 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3614 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3615 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3618 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3619 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3620 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3622 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3623 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3624 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3626 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3627 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3628 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3631 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3632 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3633 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3634 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3635 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3636 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3637 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3638 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3639 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3640 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3641 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3643 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3646 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3647 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3648 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3649 ignores EPIPE as well.
3651 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3652 (quoted-printable decoding).
3654 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3655 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3657 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3659 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3661 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3663 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3664 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3666 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3669 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3670 miscellaneous code fixes
3672 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3675 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3676 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3677 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3678 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3679 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3680 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3681 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3682 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3684 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3685 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3686 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3687 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3689 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3690 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3691 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3692 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3693 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3694 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3695 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3696 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3697 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3699 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3702 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3703 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3704 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3705 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3706 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3707 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3708 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3709 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3711 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3712 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3715 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3716 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3717 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3718 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3719 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3720 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3721 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3722 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3723 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3724 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3725 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3726 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3727 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3729 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3730 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3731 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3732 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3733 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3734 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3735 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3737 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3738 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3739 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3740 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3741 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3742 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3743 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3744 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3745 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3746 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3748 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3749 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3750 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3751 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3752 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3754 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3755 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3756 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3757 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3758 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3759 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3760 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3762 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3763 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3764 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3765 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3766 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3767 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3770 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3771 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3772 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3775 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3776 if any retry times were supplied.
3778 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3779 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3780 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3782 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3784 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3786 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3787 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3788 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3789 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3790 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3791 before) are ignored.
3793 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3794 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3796 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3797 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3798 committing the later change.]
3800 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3801 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3802 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3803 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3804 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3805 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3806 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3807 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3808 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3810 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3811 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3812 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3813 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3814 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3815 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3816 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3817 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3818 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3820 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3821 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3822 hammering the server.
3824 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3825 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3827 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3829 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3830 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3831 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3833 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3834 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3835 one case where this was not true.
3837 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3838 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3839 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3840 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3843 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3844 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3845 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3846 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3847 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3848 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3849 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3850 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3851 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3854 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3855 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3856 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3857 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3859 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3860 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3862 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3863 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3864 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3866 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3868 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3870 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3872 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3873 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3874 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3875 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3877 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3878 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3880 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3881 be meaningful with "accept".
3883 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3884 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3886 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3887 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3888 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3890 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3891 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3892 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3893 there is data to show.
3894 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3896 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3897 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3898 as well as the number of messages.
3900 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3901 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3902 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3904 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3905 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3906 have a flag are now skipped.
3908 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3909 Added the -emptyok flag.
3911 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3912 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3914 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3915 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3916 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3918 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3921 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3922 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3924 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3926 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3927 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3929 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3931 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3932 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3933 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3934 contravention of the specifications.
3936 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3937 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3938 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3940 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3941 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3942 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3944 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3946 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3947 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3948 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3949 some point in the past.
3951 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3952 transport during callout processing was broken.
3954 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3955 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3957 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3958 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3960 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3961 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3963 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3969 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3970 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3972 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3973 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3974 there is data to show.
3975 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3977 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3978 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3980 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3981 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3983 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3984 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3986 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3987 submissions from trusted users.
3989 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3990 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3992 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3993 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3994 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3995 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3996 there is now a framework to start from.
3998 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3999 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4000 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4002 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4004 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4006 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4008 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4009 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4010 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4012 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4015 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4016 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4017 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4019 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4020 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4021 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4024 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4025 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4026 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4027 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4028 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4030 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4031 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4033 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4035 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4036 operations in malware.c.
4038 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4041 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4042 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4043 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4046 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4047 statements to "add_header".
4049 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4050 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4052 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4053 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4056 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4060 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4061 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4062 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4065 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4066 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4068 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4069 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4071 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4072 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4073 any possible encoding problems.
4075 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4076 but not after initializing Perl.
4078 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4079 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4080 apparently, which is not desirable.
4082 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4085 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4088 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4090 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4091 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4092 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4093 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4095 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4096 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4097 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4099 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4100 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4101 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4104 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4105 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4106 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4107 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4108 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4114 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4115 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4117 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4120 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4121 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4122 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4123 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4124 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4125 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4126 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4127 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4130 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4132 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4133 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4134 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4136 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4137 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4138 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4141 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4142 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4144 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4145 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4146 option (which defaults to 0600).
4148 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4150 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4151 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4152 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4153 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4154 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4155 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4156 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4158 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4164 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4165 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4166 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4167 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4168 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4169 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4172 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4173 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4175 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4177 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4178 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4179 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4180 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4181 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4184 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4185 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4187 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4188 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4189 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4190 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4191 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4193 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4194 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4195 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4196 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4198 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4199 be the same on different OS.
4201 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4204 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4205 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4207 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4210 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4211 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4212 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4213 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4214 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4215 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4218 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4219 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4220 when Exim was called.
4222 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4223 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4225 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4226 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4227 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4228 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4230 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4231 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4232 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4233 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4236 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4237 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4238 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4240 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4241 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4242 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4244 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4247 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4248 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4249 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4250 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4251 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4252 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4253 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4254 values from the SRV records were lost.
4256 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4257 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4258 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4260 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4261 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4262 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4264 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4265 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4266 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4267 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4268 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4269 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4270 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4271 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4272 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4273 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4275 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4276 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4277 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4279 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4280 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4282 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4283 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4284 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4285 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4288 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4289 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4290 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4292 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4293 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4294 PH/23 above applies.
4296 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4297 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4298 (for which there is an explicit test).
4300 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4302 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4303 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4304 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4305 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4306 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4308 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4309 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4310 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4311 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4313 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4314 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4315 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4317 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4319 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4321 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4322 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4323 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4325 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4326 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4327 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4328 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4329 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4331 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4332 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4333 the message gets confusing).
4335 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4336 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4337 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4338 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4340 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4341 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4342 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4343 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4346 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4347 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4348 the different processes.
4350 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4352 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4354 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4355 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4357 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4358 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4360 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4361 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4362 messages matching specified criteria.
4364 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4366 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4367 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4369 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4370 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4371 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4372 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4373 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4374 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4375 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4376 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4377 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4378 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4380 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4381 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4382 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4384 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4386 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4387 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4388 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4389 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4390 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4391 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4392 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4395 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4396 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4398 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4400 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4402 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4404 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4405 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4406 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4407 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4408 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4409 size of the count of files.
4411 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4413 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4416 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4417 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4418 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4419 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4421 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4422 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4423 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4425 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4426 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4427 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4428 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4429 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4431 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4432 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4434 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4435 will now be deprecated.
4437 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4439 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4440 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4441 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4443 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4444 with very large, slow to parse queues
4446 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4448 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4450 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4451 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4452 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4455 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4456 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4457 Sieve code now uses this.
4459 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4460 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4462 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4463 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4465 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4467 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4468 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4469 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4470 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4471 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4473 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4474 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4475 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4476 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4478 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4480 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4482 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4483 is preferred over IPv4.
4485 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4486 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4487 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4488 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4489 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4490 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4491 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4493 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4494 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4495 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4497 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4499 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4500 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4501 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4502 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4503 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4504 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4505 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4506 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4507 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4508 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4509 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4511 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4512 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4513 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4519 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4521 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4522 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4524 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4525 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4526 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4528 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4530 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4533 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4536 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4537 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4538 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4541 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4542 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4544 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4545 inside the third argument.
4547 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4548 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4551 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4552 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4554 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4555 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4557 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4559 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4560 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4563 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4565 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4566 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4567 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4568 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4569 identical. For example:
4571 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4573 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4574 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4575 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4577 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4578 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4579 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4580 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4582 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4583 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4584 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4587 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4589 o fixes some comments
4590 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4591 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4592 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4593 and documents the missing references header update
4597 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4598 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4601 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4602 Electronic Mail") by including:
4604 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4606 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4607 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4608 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4609 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4610 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4612 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4614 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4616 The auto-replied keyword:
4618 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4619 message by an automatic process,
4621 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4623 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4624 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4626 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4627 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4630 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4631 to the default Received: header definition.
4633 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4635 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4636 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4637 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4639 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4640 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4641 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4643 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4644 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4645 and treats the condition as false.
4647 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4649 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4650 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4651 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4652 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4653 not changing the active code.
4655 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4656 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4658 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4659 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4661 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4664 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4665 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4666 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4667 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4668 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4669 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4670 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4671 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4672 the text comparison.
4674 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4675 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4676 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4677 The same fix has been applied.
4683 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4684 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4687 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4688 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4690 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4692 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4693 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4694 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4695 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4696 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4698 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4699 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4700 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4701 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4704 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4712 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4713 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4715 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4717 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4719 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4720 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4721 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4723 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4724 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4725 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4727 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4728 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4731 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4732 ${stat: expansion item.
4734 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4735 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4737 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4738 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4741 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4743 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4746 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4747 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4749 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4751 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4752 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4753 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4754 the end of the subprocess.
4756 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4757 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4758 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4759 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4760 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4762 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4764 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4766 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4767 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4769 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4771 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4773 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4774 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4777 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4779 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4780 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4781 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4783 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4784 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4786 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4787 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4789 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4790 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4792 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4793 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4795 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4796 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4797 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4798 contributed by a Radius user.
4800 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4801 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4803 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4804 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4806 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4809 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4810 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4813 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4814 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4815 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4816 header lines when this was not necessary.
4818 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4820 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4821 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4822 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4825 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4828 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4829 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4830 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4831 return code was incorrect.
4833 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4835 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4837 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4839 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4841 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4842 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4843 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4844 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4845 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4848 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4850 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4851 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4852 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4853 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4854 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4855 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4856 which is clearly wrong.
4858 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4860 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4861 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4862 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4865 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4866 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4868 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4870 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4871 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4873 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4874 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4876 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4877 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4879 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4880 recipients, not senders.
4882 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4883 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4885 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4887 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4889 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4890 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4891 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4892 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4894 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4896 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4897 clock is set back in time.
4899 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4900 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4902 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4903 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4905 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4906 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4909 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4910 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4913 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4916 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4918 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4919 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4920 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4922 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4923 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4924 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4925 helo verification defer as a failure.
4927 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4928 actual error message.
4934 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4936 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4937 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4938 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4939 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4941 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4943 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4944 can still be requested.
4946 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4947 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4948 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4949 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4951 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4952 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4953 circumstances, but probably never did.
4955 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4956 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4957 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4960 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4962 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4963 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4965 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4967 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4969 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4970 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4971 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4972 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4973 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4974 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4976 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4977 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4978 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4979 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4980 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4981 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4983 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4984 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4986 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4987 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4989 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4990 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4992 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4994 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4996 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4998 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5000 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5002 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5004 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5006 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5007 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5008 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5010 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5011 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5012 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5013 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5015 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5016 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5017 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5019 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5020 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5021 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5022 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5024 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5025 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5028 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5029 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5030 should work with maildirs and everything.
5032 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5033 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5035 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5038 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5039 function for BDB 4.3.
5041 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5043 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5044 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5047 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5048 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5049 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5050 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5051 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5052 formatting function string_vformat().
5054 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5055 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5056 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5057 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5058 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5059 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5060 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5061 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5063 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5064 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5067 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5068 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5070 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5071 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5072 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5073 test. It is now used for both.
5075 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5076 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5077 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5078 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5079 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5080 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5082 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5083 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5084 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5087 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5088 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5089 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5091 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5092 experimental DomainKeys support:
5094 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5095 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5096 the control was given.
5098 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5100 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5102 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5104 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5105 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5106 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5109 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5110 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5111 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5112 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5113 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5114 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5117 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5118 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5119 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5120 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5121 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5122 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5124 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5125 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5126 do -d+all out of habit.
5128 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5129 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5132 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5133 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5134 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5135 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5136 record types that Exim uses.
5138 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5139 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5140 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5141 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5142 non-existent file that was broken.
5144 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5145 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5147 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5148 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5149 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5151 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5153 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5154 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5155 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5156 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5157 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5160 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5161 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5162 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5163 at a slight CPU cost.
5165 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5166 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5168 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5171 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5173 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5174 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5180 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5181 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5183 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5185 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5187 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5188 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5190 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5191 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5192 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5193 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5194 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5195 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5198 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5199 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5200 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5201 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5204 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5205 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5206 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5207 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5208 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5209 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5210 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5213 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5214 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5216 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5217 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5218 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5219 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5220 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5221 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5223 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5224 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5225 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5226 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5228 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5231 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5232 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5234 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5235 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5236 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5237 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5240 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5242 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5243 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5245 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5246 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5247 to what was transported.)
5249 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5251 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5252 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5253 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5254 spamd_address settings.
5256 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5257 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5258 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5259 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5260 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5262 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5264 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5265 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5266 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5267 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5268 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5270 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5271 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5273 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5274 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5275 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5276 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5277 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5278 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5279 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5282 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5283 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5284 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5285 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5286 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5287 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5288 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5291 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5293 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5294 driver and ACL definitions.
5296 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5297 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5299 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5300 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5301 understands it better than I do:
5303 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5304 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5306 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5307 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5308 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5309 => three warnings about OTP not working
5310 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5312 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5313 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5314 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5315 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5317 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5318 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5320 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5321 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5322 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5324 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5325 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5328 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5329 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5332 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5333 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5334 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5336 warn !verify = sender
5337 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5339 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5340 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5342 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5344 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5345 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5347 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5348 nomenclature these days.)
5350 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5351 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5353 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5354 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5355 . First host does not offer TLS;
5356 . First host accepts first address;
5357 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5358 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5359 . Second host accepts second address.
5360 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5361 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5364 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5365 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5366 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5367 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5368 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5370 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5371 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5373 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5374 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5376 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5377 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5378 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5380 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5381 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5384 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5386 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5387 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5388 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5389 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5390 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5391 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5392 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5394 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5395 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5396 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5397 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5398 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5400 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5401 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5404 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5405 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5406 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5407 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5408 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5409 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5411 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5413 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5414 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5415 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5416 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5417 printable escape sequences.
5419 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5420 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5423 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5424 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5427 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5428 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5429 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5430 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5431 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5433 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5434 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5435 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5437 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5439 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5440 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5443 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5444 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5445 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5446 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5447 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5448 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5449 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5450 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5451 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5454 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5455 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5456 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5457 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5461 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5462 ----------------------------------------
5464 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5465 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5466 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5467 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5468 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5469 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5472 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5473 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5474 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5475 historical information.
5481 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5483 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5484 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5486 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5487 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5490 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5491 filter fails to execute.
5493 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5494 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5495 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5496 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5497 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5499 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5501 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5502 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5503 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5504 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5506 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5507 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5508 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5509 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5510 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5512 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5514 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5516 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5517 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5518 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5519 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5521 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5522 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5523 sender verification.
5525 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5526 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5528 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5530 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5533 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5534 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5536 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5537 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5539 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5540 information about exactly what failed.
5542 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5544 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5545 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5546 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5548 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5549 It is now set to "smtps".
5551 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5552 ignore_target_hosts.
5554 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5555 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5556 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5557 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5560 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5561 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5562 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5564 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5565 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5566 wake it up if nothing else does.
5568 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5569 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5570 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5573 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5574 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5576 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5578 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5579 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5580 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5581 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5582 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5583 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5584 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5585 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5587 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5588 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5589 than one IP address.
5591 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5592 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5593 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5594 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5596 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5597 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5598 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5599 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5600 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5603 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5604 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5605 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5606 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5608 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5609 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5612 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5613 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5614 $sender_host_address.
5616 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5617 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5618 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5619 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5620 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5623 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5625 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5626 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5628 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5629 just the host names, not the priorities.
5631 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5632 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5633 controlled by a keyword.
5635 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5636 multiple records are returned.
5638 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5639 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5642 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5644 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5645 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5647 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5648 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5649 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5651 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5653 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5655 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5657 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5658 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5659 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5660 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5661 because the tests only now provoked it.
5663 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5664 (this can affect the format of dates).
5666 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5667 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5668 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5669 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5671 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5673 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5674 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5675 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5676 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5678 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5679 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5680 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5682 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5685 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5686 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5687 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5688 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5689 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5690 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5693 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5694 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5695 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5698 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5699 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5700 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5702 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5703 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5704 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5705 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5706 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5707 so I produce this patch..."
5709 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5710 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5713 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5714 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5715 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5716 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5719 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5721 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5722 long debug lines gets shown.
5724 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5725 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5727 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5729 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5730 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5731 of $primary_hostname.
5733 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5734 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5735 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5736 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5737 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5738 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5739 by change 4.50/55 above.
5741 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5742 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5743 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5744 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5745 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5746 running as the user.
5749 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5750 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5751 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5754 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5755 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5757 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5758 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5759 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5760 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5761 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5763 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5764 This has been fixed.
5766 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5767 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5768 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5769 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5772 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5774 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5775 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5776 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5777 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5779 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5780 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5782 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5783 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5784 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5786 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5787 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5788 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5791 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5792 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5793 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5795 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5796 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5797 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5798 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5800 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5801 during host lookups.
5803 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5804 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5806 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5808 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5809 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5810 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5811 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5812 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5815 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5816 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5818 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5819 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5820 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5822 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5824 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5825 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5826 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5827 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5828 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5829 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5832 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5833 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5834 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5835 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5836 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5838 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5841 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5843 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5844 "vacation" handling.
5846 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5847 OS variants using glibc.
5849 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5852 ----------------------------------------------------
5853 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5854 ----------------------------------------------------
5860 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5861 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5864 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5865 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5868 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5869 filter fails to execute.
5871 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5872 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5873 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5874 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5875 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5877 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5878 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5879 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5880 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5882 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5883 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5884 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5885 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5886 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5888 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5890 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5891 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5892 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5893 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5895 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5896 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5897 sender verification.
5899 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5900 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5902 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5903 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5905 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5906 ignore_target_hosts.
5908 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5909 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5910 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5911 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5914 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5915 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5916 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5918 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5919 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5920 wake it up if nothing else does.
5922 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5923 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5924 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5927 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5928 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5930 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5932 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5933 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5936 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5937 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5940 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5941 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5942 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5943 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5944 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5947 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5948 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5951 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5952 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5953 $sender_host_address.
5955 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5957 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5958 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5959 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5961 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5964 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5965 (this can affect the format of dates).
5967 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5968 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5969 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5970 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5972 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5973 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5974 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5976 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5977 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5978 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5979 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5981 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5982 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5983 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5985 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5988 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5989 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5990 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5991 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5992 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5993 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5996 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5997 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5998 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5999 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6002 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6003 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6004 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6005 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6006 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6007 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6008 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6010 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6011 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6012 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6013 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6014 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6015 running as the user.
6018 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6019 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6020 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6023 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6024 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6025 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6026 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6027 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6029 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6030 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6031 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6032 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6035 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6036 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6037 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6038 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6039 because the tests only now provoked it.
6045 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6046 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6047 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6048 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6049 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6050 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6051 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6053 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6054 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6057 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6059 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6061 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6062 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6065 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6066 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6067 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6068 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6069 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6071 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6072 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6074 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6076 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6078 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6081 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6082 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6084 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6085 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6086 affecting debugging statements).
6088 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6090 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6091 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6092 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6093 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6094 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6095 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6096 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6097 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6098 after the received time, and all would be well.
6100 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6101 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6102 condition in an expansion string.
6104 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6106 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6107 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6108 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6109 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6110 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6111 job under whatever limits there are.
6113 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6115 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6118 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6119 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6120 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6121 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6124 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6125 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6126 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6127 binary data in such strings.
6129 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6131 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6132 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6133 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6134 failure, which is pointless.
6136 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6138 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6140 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6141 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6142 Sender: header lines.
6144 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6145 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6146 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6148 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6149 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6150 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6151 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6152 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6155 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6156 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6157 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6158 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6159 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6161 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6162 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6163 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6166 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6167 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6169 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6170 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6172 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6174 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6176 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6178 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6181 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6183 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6185 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6186 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6187 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6188 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6190 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6191 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6197 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6198 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6199 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6201 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6202 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6203 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6204 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6205 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6206 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6208 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6209 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6210 verification failure".
6212 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6213 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6214 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6215 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6217 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6218 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6219 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6220 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6221 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6222 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6223 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6224 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6225 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6226 treated as a timeout.
6228 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6229 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6230 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6231 not set for Exim filters).
6233 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6234 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6235 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6237 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6239 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6240 try to make them clearer.
6242 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6243 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6245 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6247 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6249 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6250 only the Cygwin environment.
6252 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6253 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6254 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6255 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6256 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6258 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6259 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6260 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6261 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6262 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6263 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6264 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6266 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6267 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6269 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6271 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6272 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6273 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6275 To: susanne@some.where
6277 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6278 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6279 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6280 of addresses in From: header lines).
6282 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6283 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6284 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6286 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6287 treated as non-personal.
6289 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6290 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6292 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6294 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6296 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6297 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6298 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6300 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6301 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6303 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6304 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6305 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6306 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6307 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6308 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6310 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6311 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6312 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6313 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6314 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6315 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6316 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6317 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6319 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6321 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6322 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6324 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6325 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6326 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6328 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6329 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6331 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6332 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6333 rather than long int.
6335 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6337 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6343 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6344 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6345 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6346 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6347 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6348 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6354 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6355 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6357 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6358 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6359 socklen_t is defined.
6361 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6364 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6367 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6368 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6369 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6370 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6371 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6373 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6374 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6375 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6376 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6378 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6379 of flapping under certain conditions.
6381 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6382 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6383 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6385 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6387 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6389 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6390 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6391 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6392 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6394 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6395 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6396 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6397 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6398 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6399 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6400 preserved with the message after it was received.
6402 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6403 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6404 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6405 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6406 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6407 test suite worked just fine.
6409 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6410 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6411 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6413 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6414 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6417 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6418 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6419 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6420 does not fully solve it.
6422 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6423 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6424 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6425 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6426 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6428 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6429 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6430 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6432 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6433 string, for example:
6435 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6437 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6438 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6439 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6440 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6441 the routers could not see them.
6443 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6444 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6446 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6447 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6450 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6451 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6452 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6453 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6454 that needed quoting.
6456 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6457 was not being matched caselessly.
6459 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6462 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6463 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6464 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6465 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6466 when use_sender is false.
6468 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6470 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6472 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6474 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6475 the configuration file.
6477 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6478 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6480 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6482 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6483 bytes in the message body.
6485 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6486 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6489 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6491 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6493 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6494 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6495 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6496 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6503 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6504 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6506 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6507 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6508 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6509 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6510 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6512 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6513 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6515 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6516 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6517 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6519 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6520 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6521 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6523 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6526 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6527 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6528 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6529 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6530 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6531 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6532 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6538 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6539 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6540 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6541 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6542 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6543 default (and expected) setting.
6545 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6546 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6547 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6548 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6550 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6551 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6553 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6556 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6557 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6558 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6559 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6560 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6561 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6563 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6564 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6565 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6567 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6568 part (NOT match_host).
6570 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6572 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6573 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6574 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6575 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6576 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6577 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6578 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6579 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6580 the same named file.
6582 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6583 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6586 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6587 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6588 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6589 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6592 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6593 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6594 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6596 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6598 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6600 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6602 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6603 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6605 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6606 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6607 before starting the TLS session.
6609 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6611 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6612 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6614 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6615 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6616 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6617 colon in the middle).
6623 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6624 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6625 multiple configurations are in use.
6627 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6628 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6629 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6630 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6631 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6632 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6634 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6635 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6637 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6638 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6639 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6641 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6642 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6645 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6646 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6648 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6650 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6651 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6653 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6661 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6662 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6663 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6664 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6665 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6667 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6670 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6671 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6672 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6673 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6674 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6675 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6677 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6678 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6679 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6680 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6681 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6682 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6683 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6686 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6687 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6688 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6689 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6690 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6692 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6694 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6695 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6696 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6698 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6700 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6701 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6702 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6705 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6706 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6708 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6709 Three changes have been made:
6711 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6712 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6713 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6714 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6715 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6717 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6720 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6721 the modified behaviour.
6727 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6730 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6731 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6733 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6734 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6735 try to track down a specific problem.
6737 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6738 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6739 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6741 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6744 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6745 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6746 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6747 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6748 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6749 some earlier ones do not.
6751 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6753 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6754 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6755 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6756 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6757 address literals are enabled, of course).
6759 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6761 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6762 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6763 by a command such as
6767 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6769 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6771 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6772 remained set. It is now erased.
6774 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6775 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6777 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6778 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6779 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6780 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6781 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6782 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6783 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6784 appropriate error code.
6786 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6787 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6788 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6789 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6790 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6791 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6793 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6794 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6795 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6797 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6798 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6799 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6800 terminate the header.
6802 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6803 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6804 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6806 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6807 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6808 (4.30/29). In particular:
6810 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6813 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6814 to write a maildirsize file.
6816 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6817 the transport, the new value overrides.
6819 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6822 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6823 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6824 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6827 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6828 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6829 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6832 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6833 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6834 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6836 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6837 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6840 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6841 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6842 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6844 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6846 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6848 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6850 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6851 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6854 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6855 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6856 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6857 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6858 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6859 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6860 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6863 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6864 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6865 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6866 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6867 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6870 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6871 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6872 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6873 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6874 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6875 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6876 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6877 cached value only when the same options are set.
6879 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6881 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6882 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6883 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6884 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6885 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6887 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6888 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6889 it is clearly obsolete.
6891 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6894 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6895 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6896 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6899 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6900 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6901 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6902 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6903 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6905 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6906 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6907 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6908 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6910 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6912 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6914 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6915 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6918 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6919 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6920 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6921 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6922 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6923 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6926 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6927 with the -f command-line option.
6929 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6930 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6931 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6932 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6933 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6934 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6936 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6937 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6940 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6941 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6942 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6943 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6944 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6945 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6946 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6947 buffer is too small.
6949 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6950 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6952 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6953 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6954 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6955 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6956 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6957 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6958 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6959 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6960 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6962 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6963 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6964 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6966 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6967 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6970 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6971 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6972 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6973 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6974 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6976 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6977 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6978 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6979 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6982 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6984 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6986 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6987 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6989 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6990 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6991 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6993 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6994 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6995 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6996 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6997 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6999 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7000 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7001 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7002 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7003 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7004 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7005 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7007 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7008 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7009 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7010 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7011 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7012 the test of how many are available.
7014 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7015 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7016 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7017 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7018 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7019 new message is started.
7021 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7022 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7024 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7025 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7027 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7028 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7029 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7032 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7033 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7034 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7035 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7036 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7037 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7038 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7040 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7041 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7042 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7043 interpreted as octal.
7045 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7048 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7049 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7050 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7051 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7052 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7053 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7055 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7056 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7057 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7058 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7060 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7061 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7062 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7063 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7065 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7066 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7069 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7070 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7072 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7074 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7075 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7076 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7077 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7079 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7080 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7081 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7082 supplied", which is not helpful.
7084 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7085 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7086 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7088 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7089 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7090 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7091 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7092 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7093 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7094 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7095 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7097 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7098 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7099 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7100 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7101 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7103 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7104 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7105 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7106 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7107 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7108 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7110 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7111 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7112 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7114 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7116 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7117 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7118 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7121 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7123 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7124 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7125 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7126 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7127 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7128 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7129 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7130 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7132 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7133 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7134 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7135 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7136 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7138 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7141 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7142 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7143 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7144 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7145 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7146 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7147 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7148 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7149 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7155 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7156 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7157 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7159 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7162 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7163 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7164 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7166 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7167 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7168 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7169 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7170 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7171 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7173 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7174 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7175 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7176 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7177 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7178 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7179 the Exim test suite.
7181 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7182 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7183 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7184 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7186 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7187 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7188 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7189 specify it in this variable.
7191 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7192 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7193 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7194 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7196 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7197 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7198 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7199 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7201 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7202 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7203 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7204 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7205 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7207 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7209 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7212 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7213 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7214 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7215 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7216 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7218 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7219 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7221 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7222 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7223 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7224 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7225 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7227 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7228 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7230 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7231 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7232 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7234 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7235 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7237 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7238 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7240 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7241 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7242 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7244 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7245 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7247 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7248 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7249 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7250 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7252 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7254 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7255 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7256 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7257 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7259 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7261 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7262 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7264 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7266 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7267 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7268 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7269 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7270 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7271 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7273 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7275 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7276 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7279 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7281 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7282 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7284 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7285 550 Sender verify failed
7287 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7288 the final line of the response.
7290 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7291 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7292 all other user lookups.
7294 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7297 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7298 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7299 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7300 result into an int without checking.
7302 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7303 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7304 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7306 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7307 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7308 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7309 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7311 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7314 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7315 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7317 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7318 to the empty sender.
7320 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7321 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7322 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7323 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7324 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7325 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7326 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7329 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7330 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7331 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7332 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7335 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7336 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7338 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7341 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7342 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7344 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7346 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7347 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7350 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7351 as soon as it is encountered.
7353 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7355 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7358 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7359 recognizes a tab character.
7361 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7362 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7363 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7364 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7366 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7368 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7371 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7373 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7375 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7376 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7379 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7380 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7381 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7382 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7383 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7385 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7386 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7388 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7389 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7390 list (.included file names were always shown).
7392 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7393 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7394 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7397 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7398 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7400 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7402 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7404 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7406 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7407 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7408 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7409 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7410 failures to open the logs.
7412 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7413 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7414 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7415 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7416 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7417 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7418 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7424 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7425 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7426 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7429 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7430 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7431 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7433 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7434 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7435 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7437 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7438 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7439 causing some misleading effects.
7441 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7442 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7443 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7445 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7446 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7447 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7448 queue-runner function directly.
7454 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7457 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7458 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7459 was always written to the default place.
7461 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7462 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7463 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7465 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7467 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7469 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7470 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7471 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7473 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7474 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7477 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7478 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7479 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7481 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7482 command line option is disabled.
7484 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7485 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7487 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7489 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7491 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7492 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7494 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7496 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7497 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7498 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7499 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7500 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7501 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7503 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7504 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7507 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7508 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7510 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7511 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7513 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7514 received was valid base64.
7516 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7517 name of the variable that was being set.
7519 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7521 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7522 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7523 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7524 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7525 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7526 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7528 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7530 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7531 nor realm was specified.
7533 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7534 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7535 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7536 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7538 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7539 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7540 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7542 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7543 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7544 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7546 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7547 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7548 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7549 some systems use these upper case variants.
7551 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7552 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7553 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7554 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7556 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7558 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7559 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7561 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7562 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7565 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7567 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7568 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7569 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7570 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7572 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7575 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7576 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7577 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7579 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7580 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7582 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7583 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7584 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7585 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7587 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7588 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7589 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7591 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7593 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7594 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7595 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7596 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7599 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7600 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7601 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7603 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7605 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7606 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7608 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7609 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7611 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7612 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7613 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7614 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7615 when emails are that large.
7622 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7623 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7625 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7626 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7627 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7629 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7630 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7631 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7633 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7634 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7635 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7636 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7637 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7639 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7640 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7641 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7642 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7643 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7646 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7647 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7648 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7649 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7650 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7651 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7652 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7653 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7654 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7655 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7656 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7657 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7658 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7659 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7661 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7662 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7665 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7666 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7667 error should be diagnosed.
7669 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7670 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7671 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7672 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7673 appeared instead of "NULL".
7675 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7676 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7677 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7678 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7679 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7680 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7683 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7684 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7685 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7691 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7692 or receiver verification errors.
7694 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7697 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7698 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7699 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7700 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7702 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7703 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7704 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7705 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7706 shouldn't happen again.
7708 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7709 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7710 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7712 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7713 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7715 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7717 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7718 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7720 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7721 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7724 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7725 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7726 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7728 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7729 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7730 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7731 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7733 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7734 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7735 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7736 to define what should happen).
7738 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7739 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7740 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7742 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7744 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7746 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7747 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7749 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7750 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7751 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7752 structure in all cases.
7754 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7755 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7756 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7757 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7759 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7760 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7763 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7764 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7766 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7767 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7769 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7770 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7771 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7773 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7774 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7775 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7777 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7778 the book and for uniformity.
7780 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7782 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7783 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7784 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7785 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7786 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7787 non-existent command as the problem.
7789 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7790 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7791 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7793 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7795 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7796 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7797 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7799 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7800 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7801 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7802 timestamps using strftime().
7804 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7805 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7807 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7808 transport-time rewrites.
7810 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7811 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7812 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7813 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7815 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7816 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7818 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7819 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7820 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7821 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7824 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7825 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7826 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7827 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7828 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7829 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7830 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7832 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7833 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7834 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7835 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7836 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7838 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7839 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7840 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7841 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7842 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7843 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7844 remaining text gets split now.
7846 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7847 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7848 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7849 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7851 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7852 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7853 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7854 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7857 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7858 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7859 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7860 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7861 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7862 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7863 passed through if needed.
7865 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7866 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7867 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7868 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7869 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7870 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7872 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7873 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7874 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7875 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7876 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7878 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7879 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7880 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7881 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7882 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7884 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7885 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7888 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7889 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7890 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7891 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7892 mayhem of various kinds.
7894 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7895 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7896 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7897 the right test for positive values.
7899 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7900 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7901 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7902 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7903 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7904 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7905 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7906 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7907 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7908 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7911 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7914 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7915 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7918 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7919 the existing equality matching.
7921 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7922 dealing with inode numbers.
7924 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7925 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7926 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7928 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7929 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7930 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7931 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7934 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7935 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7936 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7937 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7938 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7939 relay addresses has also been removed.
7941 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7943 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7944 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7945 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7947 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7948 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7949 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7950 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7951 processing applies to CR:
7953 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7954 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7956 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7957 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7958 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7959 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7961 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7962 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7963 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7965 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7966 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7967 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7968 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7969 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7970 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7973 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7976 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7977 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7978 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7979 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7982 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7984 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7986 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7988 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7989 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7990 not considered personal.
7992 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7994 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7996 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7998 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7999 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8000 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8001 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8002 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8003 header lines, and spool format errors.
8005 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8006 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8007 for more flexibility.
8009 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8010 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8011 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8013 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8016 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8017 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8018 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8019 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8020 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8021 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8022 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8023 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8024 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8026 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8027 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8028 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8029 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8030 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8031 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8032 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8034 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8035 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8036 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8038 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8039 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8040 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8041 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8042 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8043 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8044 instead of killing the process with assert().
8046 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8047 than Unicode encoding.
8049 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8050 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8051 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8052 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8054 77. Added process_log_path.
8056 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8057 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8059 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8060 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8062 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8063 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8064 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8066 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8067 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8068 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8069 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8070 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8073 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8074 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8077 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8078 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8079 they will be used during message reception.
8085 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.