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 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
42 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
43 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
45 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
46 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
49 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
52 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
54 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
56 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
57 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
59 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
60 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
61 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
62 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
63 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
66 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
67 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
69 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
70 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
73 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
74 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
76 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
77 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
78 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
79 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
82 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
83 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
84 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
86 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
89 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
90 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
92 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
93 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
94 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
95 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
98 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
99 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
100 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
101 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
104 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
105 shared (NFS) environment.
107 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
108 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
111 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
112 on some platforms for bit 31.
114 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
115 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
116 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
117 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
118 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
119 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
120 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
121 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
123 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
125 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
126 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
128 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
129 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
132 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
133 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
136 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
137 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
138 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
141 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
142 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
143 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
145 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
146 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
147 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
148 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
149 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
151 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
154 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
155 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
156 be requested on all coneections.
158 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
159 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
161 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
163 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
164 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
165 one for these; the option was ignored.
167 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
168 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
169 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
170 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
172 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
173 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
174 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
177 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
178 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
179 error ignored was made.
181 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
183 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
184 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
185 values, to catch one form of exploit.
187 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
188 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
189 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
191 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
192 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
195 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
196 them in our smtp response.
198 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
199 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
200 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
201 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
202 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
204 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
205 link count into consideration.
207 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
208 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
210 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
211 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
212 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
215 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
217 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
219 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
221 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
222 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
223 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
224 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
226 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
228 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
229 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
232 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
233 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
234 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
236 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
237 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
238 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
240 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
241 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
242 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
243 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
244 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
245 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
246 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
247 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
249 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
250 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
251 resulted in an indefinite loop.
253 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
254 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
255 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
261 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
262 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
264 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
265 non-signal-safe functions being used.
267 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
268 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
269 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
271 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
272 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
273 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
275 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
276 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
277 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
278 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
279 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
282 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
283 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
285 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
286 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
287 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
288 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
289 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
290 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
291 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
293 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
294 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
296 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
299 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
300 Previously this would segfault.
302 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
305 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
306 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
307 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
308 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
309 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
310 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
312 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
314 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
315 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
316 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
317 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
319 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
321 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
322 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
323 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
324 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
326 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
328 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
330 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
331 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
332 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
334 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
335 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
336 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
338 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
340 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
341 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
342 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
343 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
345 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
346 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
347 promised '?' replacement.
349 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
351 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
352 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
353 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
354 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
355 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
357 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
358 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
359 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
361 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
362 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
363 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
365 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
366 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
367 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
369 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
370 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
371 hope that is portable enough.
373 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
374 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
375 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
376 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
378 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
379 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
380 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
382 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
383 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
384 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
385 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
387 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
388 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
390 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
391 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
392 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
393 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
395 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
396 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
397 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
399 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
400 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
401 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
402 the previous G, M, k.
404 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
405 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
408 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
409 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
410 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
411 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
413 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
414 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
416 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
417 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
418 off past the nul-terimation.
420 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
421 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
422 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
423 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
424 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
426 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
428 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
429 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
430 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
433 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
434 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
436 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
437 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
438 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
440 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
441 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
442 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
444 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
445 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
451 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
452 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
453 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
454 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
455 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
456 be defined in redis_servers.
458 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
459 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
461 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
462 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
463 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
464 extant use locations.
466 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
467 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
469 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
470 Previously only the last row was returned.
472 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
473 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
474 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
475 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
478 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
479 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
480 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
481 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
482 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
483 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
484 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
485 Main pool for expansions.
486 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
487 active in the testsuite.
488 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
490 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
491 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
492 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
493 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
496 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
497 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
500 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
501 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
502 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
504 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
505 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
506 ClamAV interface method is removed.
508 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
509 rows affected is given instead).
511 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
512 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
514 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
515 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
516 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
517 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
518 for all multi-message initiating connections.
520 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
521 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
522 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
524 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
525 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
526 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
527 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
530 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
531 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
532 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
535 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
537 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
538 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
540 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
541 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
542 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
544 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
545 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
546 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
549 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
550 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
552 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
553 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
554 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
556 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
557 for the build is renamed.
559 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
560 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
561 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
563 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
564 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
565 result replacing the original.
567 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
568 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
569 and the resources needed to be freed.
571 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
573 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
576 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
577 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
578 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
579 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
581 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
582 length value. Previously this would segfault.
584 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
585 newer versions of the scanner.
587 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
588 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
589 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
590 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
591 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
592 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
593 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
595 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
596 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
597 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
598 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
599 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
600 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
601 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
602 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
603 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
604 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
606 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
607 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
609 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
611 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
612 allows proper process termination in container environments.
614 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
615 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
617 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
618 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
619 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
621 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
622 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
623 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
624 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
626 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
627 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
630 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
631 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
633 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
634 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
635 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
636 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
637 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
639 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
640 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
643 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
644 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
646 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
649 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
650 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
651 "bare" representation.
653 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
654 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
655 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
656 corrupted the output.
662 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
663 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
664 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
665 pairs of long lines into single ones.
667 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
668 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
670 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
671 This permits better logging.
673 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
674 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
675 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
676 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
677 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
678 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
680 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
681 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
684 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
685 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
686 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
688 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
689 than 255 are no longer allowed.
691 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
692 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
693 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
694 client, there is no benefit for these.
695 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
696 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
697 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
700 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
701 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
703 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
704 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
705 erroneously found still-pending ones.
707 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
708 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
710 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
711 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
712 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
713 signature and again for transmission.
715 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
716 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
717 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
719 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
720 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
721 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
722 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
723 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
724 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
725 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
727 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
728 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
729 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
730 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
732 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
733 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
734 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
735 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
736 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
737 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
740 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
741 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
742 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
743 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
746 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
747 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
748 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
749 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
752 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
753 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
756 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
757 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
758 banner-time rejection.
760 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
763 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
764 is the name of a transport.
767 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
769 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
770 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
772 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
773 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
774 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
777 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
778 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
779 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
780 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
782 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
783 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
784 initial verify call returned a defer.
786 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
787 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
789 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
790 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
792 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
793 if present. Previously it was ignored.
795 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
796 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
798 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
799 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
802 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
803 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
805 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
806 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
807 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
809 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
810 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
811 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
812 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
814 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
815 and confused the parent.
817 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
818 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
820 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
823 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
824 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
825 out-of-order delivery.
827 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
828 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
829 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
832 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
833 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
836 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
837 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
838 one run was done. Bug 2189.
840 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
841 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
842 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
843 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
844 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
845 message is still "Temporary local problem".
847 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
848 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
849 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
851 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
852 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
853 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
855 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
856 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
857 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
858 though a different problem.
864 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
865 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
867 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
869 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
870 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
872 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
873 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
875 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
876 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
877 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
878 before acknowledging the chunk.
880 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
881 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
882 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
884 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
885 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
886 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
889 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
890 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
891 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
893 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
894 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
896 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
897 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
898 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
899 body hash calculated value.
901 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
902 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
903 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
905 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
907 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
908 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
910 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
911 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
912 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
914 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
915 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
916 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
917 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
918 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
919 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
921 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
922 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
923 past that check, despite the cost.
925 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
926 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
927 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
929 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
930 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
931 TLS library to consume.
933 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
935 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
937 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
938 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
939 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
940 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
941 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
942 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
943 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
945 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
947 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
949 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
950 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
951 should be warning-free.
953 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
955 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
956 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
958 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
959 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
960 general solution here.
962 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
963 already-broken messages in the queue.
965 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
967 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
973 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
974 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
976 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
977 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
978 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
980 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
981 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
982 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
983 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
984 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
985 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
986 if one fails this test.
987 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
988 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
990 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
991 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
993 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
994 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
996 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
997 in rewrites and routers.
999 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1000 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1002 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1003 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1005 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1007 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1010 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1011 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1012 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1013 connection after a verify cache hit.
1014 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1016 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1017 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1019 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1020 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1021 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1022 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1023 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1025 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1026 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1028 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1029 Previously they were not counted.
1031 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1032 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1033 that needed the lookup.
1035 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1036 distinguished as "(=".
1038 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1039 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1041 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1043 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1044 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1046 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1047 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1049 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1050 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1053 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1054 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1055 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1056 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1058 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1060 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1061 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1062 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1064 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1065 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1066 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1069 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1070 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1071 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1074 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1075 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1076 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1078 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1079 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1082 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1084 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1085 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1087 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1088 are not in the system include path.
1090 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1091 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1092 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1093 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1095 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1096 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1097 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1099 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1101 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1102 an incoming connection.
1104 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1107 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1108 fallback to "prime256v1".
1110 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1111 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1117 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1118 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1119 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1120 client dropping the TLS connection.
1122 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1123 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1125 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1126 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1127 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1128 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1131 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1132 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1133 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1134 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1135 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1136 check on the next write.
1138 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1139 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1140 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1141 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1142 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1144 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1145 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1147 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1148 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1149 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1151 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1152 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1153 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1154 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1156 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1157 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1159 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1160 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1162 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1163 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1164 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1167 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1169 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1171 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1173 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1174 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1176 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1177 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1179 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1181 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1182 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1184 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1186 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1187 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1189 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1191 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1192 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1193 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1194 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1195 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1196 they will retry in-clear.
1197 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1198 at installation time.
1200 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1201 with the $config_file variable.
1203 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1204 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1205 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1206 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1207 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1209 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1210 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1211 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1212 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1213 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1215 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1217 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1218 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1219 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1220 list order is no longer honoured.
1222 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1223 for DKIM processing.
1225 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1226 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1228 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1229 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1230 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1231 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1233 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1234 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1236 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1237 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1239 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1240 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1242 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1244 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1245 cached by the daemon.
1247 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1248 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1250 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1251 keys are given for lookup.
1253 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1254 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1255 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1256 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1258 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1259 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1260 server-side so match that on older versions.
1262 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1263 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1264 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1266 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1267 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1269 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1270 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1271 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1272 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1273 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1274 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1275 initial truncated version.
1277 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1279 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1281 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1282 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1284 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1286 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1288 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1289 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1292 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1293 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1296 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1297 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1299 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1300 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1303 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1304 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1305 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1307 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1308 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1309 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1310 extraction. Accept either.
1316 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1319 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1321 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1324 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1325 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1326 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1327 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1329 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1330 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1331 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1333 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1334 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1335 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1338 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1341 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1342 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1343 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1344 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1345 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1347 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1348 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1349 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1351 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1353 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1354 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1356 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1357 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1359 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1362 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1363 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1365 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1366 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1367 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1369 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1370 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1371 specify a port-range.
1373 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1374 timeout value per server.
1376 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1377 now have the list separator specified.
1379 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1382 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1385 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1387 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1388 rather than the verbs used.
1390 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1391 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1393 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1395 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1396 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1398 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1399 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1401 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1402 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1404 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1406 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1408 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1409 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1410 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1411 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1413 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1415 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1416 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1418 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1419 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1421 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1423 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1425 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1427 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1428 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1430 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1431 added for tls authenticator.
1433 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1439 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1440 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1441 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1442 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1443 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1444 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1445 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1447 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1448 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1449 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1450 function when detected.
1452 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1453 cause callback expansion.
1455 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1456 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1457 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1458 instead of bool when processing it.
1460 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1461 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1463 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1465 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1467 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1469 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1470 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1472 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1473 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1474 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1475 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1476 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1477 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1479 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1480 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1483 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1484 version 3.3.6 or later.
1486 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1487 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1488 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1489 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1490 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1491 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1494 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1495 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1497 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1498 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1499 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1502 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1503 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1504 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1506 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1507 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1509 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1510 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1513 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1515 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1516 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1518 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1519 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1522 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1524 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1527 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1528 output list separator was used.
1533 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1534 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1537 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1538 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1540 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1542 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1543 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1549 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1551 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1552 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1553 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1554 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1555 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1556 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1558 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1559 utilities have not been installed.
1561 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1562 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1564 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1565 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1567 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1568 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1569 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1570 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1572 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1574 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1575 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1577 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1580 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1582 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1583 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1584 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1586 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1587 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1588 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1589 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1590 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1591 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1593 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1595 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1596 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1598 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1601 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1603 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1605 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1606 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1608 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1609 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1611 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1613 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1615 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1616 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1618 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1619 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1620 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1622 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1623 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1624 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1627 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1629 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1630 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1633 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1634 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1637 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1638 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1640 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1641 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1643 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1645 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1646 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1647 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1649 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1650 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1652 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1653 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1656 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1657 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1658 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1660 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1662 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1663 Christian Aistleitner.
1665 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1667 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1668 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1670 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1671 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1673 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1674 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1676 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1677 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1679 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1680 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1682 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1683 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1684 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1686 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1688 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1689 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1692 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1694 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1695 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1702 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1704 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1705 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1707 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1710 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1711 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1714 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1716 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1717 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1718 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1719 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1720 using channel bindings instead).
1722 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1723 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1724 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1725 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1726 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1729 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1731 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1733 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1734 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1736 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1737 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1738 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1740 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1742 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1744 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1745 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1747 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1749 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1751 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1753 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1754 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1756 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1758 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1759 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1762 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1763 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1765 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1766 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1769 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1771 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1773 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1774 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1776 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1779 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1780 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1782 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1783 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1785 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1787 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1789 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1792 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1795 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1797 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1798 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1799 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1800 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1802 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1804 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1805 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1806 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1807 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1810 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1811 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1812 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1814 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1815 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1816 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1817 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1819 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1820 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1821 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1822 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1823 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1824 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1825 delivery, as in LMTP.
1827 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1828 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1830 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1832 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1836 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1837 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1838 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1839 username as equal to the username.
1841 This change corrects that bug.
1843 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1844 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1845 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1847 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1849 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1850 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1851 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1852 NULL dereference and crash.
1854 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1856 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1857 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1858 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1860 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1862 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1863 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1864 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1865 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1866 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1867 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1868 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1869 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1870 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1871 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1872 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1874 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1875 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1877 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1878 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1881 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1882 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1883 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1884 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1885 an empty string is now equivalent.
1887 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1888 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1889 not performing validation itself.
1891 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1892 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1894 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1897 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1899 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1900 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1901 other false fix of the same issue.
1902 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1905 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1906 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1908 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1909 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1910 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1912 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1913 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1914 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1916 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1918 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1920 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1921 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1923 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1926 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1927 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1928 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1929 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1930 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1932 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1933 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1935 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1936 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1939 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1940 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1941 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1942 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1944 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1946 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1947 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1948 from multiple comments on this bug.
1950 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1952 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1953 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1956 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1957 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1959 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1960 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1966 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1968 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1974 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1975 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1976 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1978 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1980 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1983 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1985 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1987 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1989 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1990 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1992 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1993 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1995 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1996 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1998 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1999 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2000 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2002 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2004 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2005 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2007 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2009 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2011 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2012 non-compliant senders.
2013 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2015 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2016 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2017 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2019 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2020 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2021 in spool file corruption.
2023 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2024 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2025 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2028 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2029 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2030 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2032 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2033 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2035 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2037 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2039 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2041 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2042 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2043 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2045 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2046 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2047 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2048 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2050 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2051 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2053 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2054 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2055 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2056 resolver implementation change.
2058 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2059 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2061 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2063 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2065 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2066 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2068 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2069 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2071 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2072 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2074 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2075 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2076 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2077 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2078 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2080 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2082 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2083 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2084 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2086 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2088 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2089 read-only, out of scope).
2090 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2092 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2093 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2094 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2095 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2097 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2099 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2100 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2101 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2102 real issues in debug logging.
2104 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2105 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2107 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2108 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2109 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2111 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2112 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2113 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2116 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2117 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2119 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2120 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2121 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2122 needs to override this, it can.
2124 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2125 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2126 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2128 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2129 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2130 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2131 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2133 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2139 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2140 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2142 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2144 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2147 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2148 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2150 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2151 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2152 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2154 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2155 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2156 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2157 not safe for signals.
2159 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2160 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2161 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2162 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2165 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2167 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2168 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2169 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2170 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2171 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2173 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2174 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2175 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2176 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2177 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2178 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2180 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2181 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2182 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2183 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2185 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2186 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2187 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2188 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2190 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2191 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2192 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2193 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2194 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2195 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2196 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2197 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2198 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2200 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2201 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2202 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2203 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2205 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2206 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2207 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2208 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2209 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2210 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2211 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2212 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2213 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2214 details in the main documentation.
2216 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2218 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2220 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2221 repository when doing development or release builds.
2223 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2224 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2226 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2227 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2230 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2232 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2233 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2235 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2236 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2238 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2239 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2241 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2242 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2244 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2245 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2247 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2249 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2252 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2253 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2254 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2256 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2258 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2260 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2261 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2267 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2269 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2270 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2272 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2274 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2276 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2279 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2280 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2282 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2283 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2285 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2286 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2288 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2291 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2292 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2294 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2295 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2296 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2297 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2299 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2300 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2306 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2309 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2310 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2311 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2313 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2314 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2316 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2317 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2318 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2320 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2321 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2323 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2324 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2326 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2327 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2329 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2330 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2332 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2333 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2335 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2338 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2339 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2341 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2342 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2344 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2345 SQL string expansion failure details.
2346 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2348 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2349 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2351 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2352 extern declarations in function scope.
2353 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2355 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2356 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2357 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2360 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2361 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2363 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2364 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2366 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2367 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2369 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2370 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2372 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2373 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2376 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2378 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2380 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2381 Patch by Simon Arlott
2383 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2384 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2390 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2391 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2393 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2394 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2396 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2398 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2399 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2400 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2402 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2403 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2404 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2406 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2407 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2408 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2409 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2411 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2412 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2413 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2414 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2416 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2417 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2418 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2421 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2424 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2425 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2426 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2427 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2428 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2434 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2435 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2436 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2438 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2439 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2441 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2443 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2445 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2447 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2449 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2451 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2452 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2453 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2454 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2456 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2457 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2458 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2459 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2460 more caution in buffer sizes.
2462 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2464 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2466 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2468 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2470 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2472 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2474 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2476 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2477 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2478 ignore trailing whitespace.
2480 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2482 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2485 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2486 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2488 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2489 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2490 Notification from John Horne.
2492 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2495 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2496 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2499 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2502 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2503 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2504 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2506 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2507 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2508 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2511 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2512 option (effectively making it always true).
2514 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2515 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2517 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2518 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2520 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2521 run-time user, instead of root.
2523 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2524 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2526 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2527 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2530 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2531 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2532 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2534 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2536 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2542 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2543 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2546 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2547 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2550 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2551 Patch from Alain Williams
2553 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2555 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2556 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2558 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2559 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2561 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2563 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2565 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2566 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2568 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2570 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2572 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2573 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2574 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2576 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2577 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2579 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2580 Patch by Simon Arlott
2582 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2583 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2589 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2591 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2593 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2595 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2597 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2603 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2604 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2606 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2607 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2610 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2611 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2612 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2614 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2615 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2617 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2618 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2619 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2620 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2622 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2623 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2624 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2626 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2628 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2630 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2631 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2633 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2635 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2636 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2637 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2638 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2640 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2641 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2643 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2645 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2647 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2648 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2650 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2651 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2653 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2654 that they are available at delivery time.
2656 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2658 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2659 incoming_port log selectors.
2661 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2662 setting expands to an empty string.
2664 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2665 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2667 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2668 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2670 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2671 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2673 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2674 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2676 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2677 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2679 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2680 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2682 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2684 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2685 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2687 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2688 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2690 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2692 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2693 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2695 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2697 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2699 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2702 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2703 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2705 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2706 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2708 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2709 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2711 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2712 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2714 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2715 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2717 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2718 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2720 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2721 plus update to original patch.
2723 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2725 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2726 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2728 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2730 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2732 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2734 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2736 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2737 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2739 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2740 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2742 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2743 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2745 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2746 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2748 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2750 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2752 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2754 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2760 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2761 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2762 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2764 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2765 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2766 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2767 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2768 build errors in sieve.c.
2770 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2771 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2772 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2774 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2776 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2778 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2780 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2786 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2788 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2789 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2790 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2791 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2792 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2793 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2794 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2795 for iplsearch lookups.
2797 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2798 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2799 previously such lookups could never work.
2801 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2802 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2803 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2805 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2808 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2809 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2810 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2811 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2812 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2813 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2815 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2816 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2818 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2819 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2820 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2821 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2822 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2823 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2825 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2828 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2830 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2831 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2834 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2835 by clients under certain conditions.
2837 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2838 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2840 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2842 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2843 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2845 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2847 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2849 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2851 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2852 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2854 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2856 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2857 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2859 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2861 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2863 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2864 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2865 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2866 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2868 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2869 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2870 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2872 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2873 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2875 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2877 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2879 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2881 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2882 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2883 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2889 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2890 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2893 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2894 issue a MAIL command.
2896 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2898 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2900 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2901 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2902 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2903 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2904 item. This has been fixed.
2906 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2907 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2909 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2910 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2912 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2913 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2914 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2916 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2918 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2919 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2920 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2921 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2922 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2924 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2925 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2926 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2928 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2929 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2930 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2931 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2933 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2935 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2937 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2938 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2939 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2940 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2941 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2943 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2945 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2946 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2947 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2950 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2952 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2954 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2956 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2958 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2960 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2961 no_callout_flush is set.
2963 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2964 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2965 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2968 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2970 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2971 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2972 other ACL rejections are.
2974 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2975 with slight modification.
2977 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2978 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2980 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2981 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2984 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2985 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2987 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2989 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2990 expansion side effects.
2992 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2993 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2994 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2997 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2998 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2999 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3001 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3002 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3003 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3004 were accidentally chopped off.
3006 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3007 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3008 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3009 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3010 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3011 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3012 pipelining has not been advertised.
3014 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3016 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3017 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3018 This has been fixed.
3020 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3021 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3022 reported on Solaris.
3024 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3025 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3026 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3027 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3028 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3029 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3030 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3032 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3035 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3037 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3039 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3040 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3041 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3042 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3043 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3044 criteria to be more general.
3046 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3047 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3048 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3049 host_all_ignored option.
3051 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3052 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3053 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3054 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3055 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3056 is what is supposed to happen).
3058 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3059 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3060 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3061 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3062 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3065 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3066 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3067 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3068 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3069 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3070 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3073 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3075 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3076 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3078 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3079 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3081 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3083 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3085 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3086 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3087 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3088 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3089 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3090 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3091 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3092 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3093 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3094 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3095 least in a lot of common cases.
3097 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3098 advertised in response to EHLO.
3104 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3105 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3107 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3108 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3110 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3111 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3112 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3114 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3115 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3116 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3117 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3118 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3124 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3125 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3128 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3129 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3130 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3132 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3133 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3134 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3135 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3136 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3137 rather than extend the field.
3143 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3144 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3145 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3146 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3149 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3150 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3151 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3153 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3154 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3155 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3157 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3158 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3159 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3162 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3163 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3164 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3165 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3166 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3167 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3168 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3169 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3170 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3171 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3172 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3174 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3177 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3178 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3179 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3180 ignores EPIPE as well.
3182 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3183 (quoted-printable decoding).
3185 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3186 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3188 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3190 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3192 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3194 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3195 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3197 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3200 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3201 miscellaneous code fixes
3203 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3206 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3207 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3208 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3209 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3210 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3211 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3212 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3213 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3215 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3216 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3217 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3218 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3220 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3221 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3222 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3223 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3224 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3225 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3226 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3227 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3228 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3230 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3233 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3234 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3235 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3236 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3237 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3238 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3239 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3240 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3242 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3243 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3246 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3247 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3248 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3249 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3250 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3251 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3252 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3253 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3254 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3255 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3256 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3257 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3258 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3260 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3261 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3262 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3263 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3264 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3265 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3266 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3268 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3269 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3270 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3271 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3272 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3273 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3274 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3275 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3276 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3277 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3279 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3280 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3281 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3282 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3283 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3285 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3286 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3287 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3288 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3289 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3290 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3291 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3293 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3294 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3295 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3296 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3297 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3298 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3301 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3302 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3303 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3306 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3307 if any retry times were supplied.
3309 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3310 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3311 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3313 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3315 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3317 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3318 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3319 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3320 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3321 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3322 before) are ignored.
3324 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3325 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3327 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3328 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3329 committing the later change.]
3331 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3332 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3333 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3334 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3335 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3336 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3337 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3338 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3339 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3341 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3342 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3343 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3344 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3345 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3346 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3347 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3348 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3349 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3351 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3352 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3353 hammering the server.
3355 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3356 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3358 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3360 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3361 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3362 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3364 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3365 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3366 one case where this was not true.
3368 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3369 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3370 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3371 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3374 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3375 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3376 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3377 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3378 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3379 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3380 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3381 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3382 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3385 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3386 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3387 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3388 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3390 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3391 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3393 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3394 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3395 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3397 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3399 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3401 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3403 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3404 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3405 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3406 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3408 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3409 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3411 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3412 be meaningful with "accept".
3414 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3415 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3417 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3418 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3419 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3421 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3422 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3423 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3424 there is data to show.
3425 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3427 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3428 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3429 as well as the number of messages.
3431 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3432 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3433 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3435 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3436 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3437 have a flag are now skipped.
3439 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3440 Added the -emptyok flag.
3442 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3443 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3445 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3446 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3447 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3449 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3452 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3453 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3455 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3457 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3458 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3460 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3462 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3463 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3464 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3465 contravention of the specifications.
3467 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3468 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3469 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3471 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3472 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3473 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3475 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3477 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3478 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3479 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3480 some point in the past.
3482 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3483 transport during callout processing was broken.
3485 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3486 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3488 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3489 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3491 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3492 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3494 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3500 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3501 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3503 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3504 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3505 there is data to show.
3506 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3508 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3509 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3511 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3512 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3514 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3515 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3517 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3518 submissions from trusted users.
3520 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3521 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3523 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3524 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3525 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3526 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3527 there is now a framework to start from.
3529 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3530 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3531 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3533 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3535 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3537 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3539 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3540 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3541 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3543 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3546 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3547 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3548 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3550 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3551 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3552 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3555 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3556 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3557 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3558 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3559 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3561 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3562 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3564 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3566 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3567 operations in malware.c.
3569 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3572 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3573 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3574 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3577 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3578 statements to "add_header".
3580 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3581 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3583 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3584 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3587 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3591 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3592 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3593 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3596 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3597 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3599 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3600 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3602 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3603 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3604 any possible encoding problems.
3606 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3607 but not after initializing Perl.
3609 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3610 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3611 apparently, which is not desirable.
3613 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3616 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3619 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3621 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3622 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3623 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3624 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3626 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3627 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3628 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3630 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3631 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3632 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3635 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3636 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3637 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3638 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3639 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3645 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3646 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3648 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3651 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3652 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3653 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3654 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3655 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3656 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3657 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3658 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3661 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3663 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3664 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3665 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3667 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3668 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3669 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3672 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3673 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3675 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3676 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3677 option (which defaults to 0600).
3679 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3681 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3682 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3683 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3684 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3685 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3686 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3687 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3689 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3695 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3696 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3697 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3698 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3699 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3700 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3703 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3704 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3706 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3708 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3709 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3710 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3711 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3712 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3715 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3716 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3718 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3719 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3720 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3721 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3722 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3724 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3725 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3726 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3727 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3729 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3730 be the same on different OS.
3732 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3735 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3736 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3738 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3741 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3742 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3743 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3744 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3745 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3746 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3749 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3750 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3751 when Exim was called.
3753 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3754 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3756 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3757 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3758 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3759 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3761 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3762 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3763 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3764 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3767 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3768 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3769 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3771 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3772 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3773 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3775 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3778 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3779 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3780 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3781 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3782 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3783 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3784 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3785 values from the SRV records were lost.
3787 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3788 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3789 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3791 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3792 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3793 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3795 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3796 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3797 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3798 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3799 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3800 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3801 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3802 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3803 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3804 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3806 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3807 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3808 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3810 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3811 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3813 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3814 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3815 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3816 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3819 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3820 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3821 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3823 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3824 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3825 PH/23 above applies.
3827 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3828 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3829 (for which there is an explicit test).
3831 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3833 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3834 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3835 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3836 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3837 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3839 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3840 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3841 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3842 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3844 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3845 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3846 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3848 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3850 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3852 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3853 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3854 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3856 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3857 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3858 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3859 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3860 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3862 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3863 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3864 the message gets confusing).
3866 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3867 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3868 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3869 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3871 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3872 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3873 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3874 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3877 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3878 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3879 the different processes.
3881 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3883 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3885 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3886 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3888 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3889 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3891 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3892 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3893 messages matching specified criteria.
3895 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3897 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3898 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3900 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3901 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3902 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3903 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3904 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3905 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3906 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3907 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3908 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3909 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3911 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3912 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3913 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3915 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3917 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3918 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3919 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3920 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3921 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3922 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3923 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3926 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3927 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3929 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3931 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3933 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3935 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3936 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3937 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3938 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3939 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3940 size of the count of files.
3942 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3944 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3947 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3948 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3949 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3950 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3952 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3953 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3954 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3956 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3957 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3958 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3959 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3960 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3962 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3963 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3965 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3966 will now be deprecated.
3968 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3970 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3971 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3972 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3974 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3975 with very large, slow to parse queues
3977 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3979 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3981 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3982 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3983 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3986 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3987 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3988 Sieve code now uses this.
3990 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3991 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3993 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3994 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3996 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3998 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3999 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4000 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4001 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4002 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4004 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4005 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4006 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4007 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4009 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4011 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4013 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4014 is preferred over IPv4.
4016 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4017 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4018 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4019 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4020 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4021 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4022 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4024 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4025 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4026 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4028 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4030 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4031 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4032 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4033 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4034 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4035 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4036 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4037 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4038 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4039 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4040 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4042 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4043 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4044 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4050 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4052 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4053 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4055 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4056 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4057 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4059 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4061 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4064 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4067 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4068 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4069 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4072 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4073 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4075 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4076 inside the third argument.
4078 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4079 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4082 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4083 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4085 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4086 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4088 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4090 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4091 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4094 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4096 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4097 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4098 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4099 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4100 identical. For example:
4102 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4104 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4105 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4106 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4108 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4109 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4110 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4111 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4113 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4114 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4115 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4118 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4120 o fixes some comments
4121 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4122 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4123 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4124 and documents the missing references header update
4128 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4129 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4132 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4133 Electronic Mail") by including:
4135 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4137 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4138 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4139 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4140 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4141 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4143 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4145 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4147 The auto-replied keyword:
4149 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4150 message by an automatic process,
4152 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4154 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4155 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4157 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4158 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4161 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4162 to the default Received: header definition.
4164 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4166 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4167 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4168 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4170 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4171 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4172 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4174 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4175 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4176 and treats the condition as false.
4178 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4180 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4181 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4182 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4183 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4184 not changing the active code.
4186 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4187 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4189 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4190 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4192 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4195 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4196 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4197 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4198 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4199 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4200 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4201 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4202 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4203 the text comparison.
4205 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4206 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4207 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4208 The same fix has been applied.
4214 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4215 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4218 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4219 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4221 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4223 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4224 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4225 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4226 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4227 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4229 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4230 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4231 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4232 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4235 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4243 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4244 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4246 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4248 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4250 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4251 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4252 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4254 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4255 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4256 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4258 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4259 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4262 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4263 ${stat: expansion item.
4265 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4266 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4268 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4269 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4272 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4274 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4277 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4278 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4280 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4282 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4283 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4284 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4285 the end of the subprocess.
4287 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4288 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4289 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4290 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4291 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4293 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4295 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4297 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4298 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4300 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4302 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4304 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4305 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4308 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4310 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4311 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4312 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4314 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4315 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4317 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4318 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4320 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4321 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4323 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4324 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4326 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4327 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4328 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4329 contributed by a Radius user.
4331 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4332 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4334 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4335 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4337 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4340 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4341 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4344 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4345 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4346 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4347 header lines when this was not necessary.
4349 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4351 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4352 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4353 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4356 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4359 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4360 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4361 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4362 return code was incorrect.
4364 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4366 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4368 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4370 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4372 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4373 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4374 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4375 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4376 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4379 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4381 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4382 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4383 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4384 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4385 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4386 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4387 which is clearly wrong.
4389 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4391 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4392 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4393 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4396 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4397 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4399 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4401 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4402 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4404 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4405 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4407 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4408 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4410 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4411 recipients, not senders.
4413 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4414 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4416 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4418 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4420 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4421 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4422 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4423 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4425 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4427 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4428 clock is set back in time.
4430 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4431 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4433 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4434 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4436 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4437 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4440 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4441 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4444 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4447 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4449 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4450 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4451 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4453 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4454 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4455 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4456 helo verification defer as a failure.
4458 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4459 actual error message.
4465 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4467 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4468 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4469 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4470 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4472 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4474 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4475 can still be requested.
4477 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4478 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4479 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4480 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4482 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4483 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4484 circumstances, but probably never did.
4486 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4487 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4488 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4491 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4493 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4494 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4496 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4498 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4500 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4501 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4502 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4503 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4504 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4505 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4507 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4508 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4509 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4510 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4511 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4512 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4514 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4515 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4517 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4518 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4520 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4521 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4523 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4525 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4527 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4529 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4531 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4533 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4535 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4537 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4538 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4539 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4541 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4542 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4543 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4544 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4546 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4547 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4548 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4550 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4551 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4552 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4553 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4555 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4556 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4559 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4560 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4561 should work with maildirs and everything.
4563 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4564 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4566 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4569 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4570 function for BDB 4.3.
4572 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4574 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4575 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4578 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4579 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4580 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4581 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4582 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4583 formatting function string_vformat().
4585 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4586 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4587 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4588 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4589 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4590 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4591 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4592 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4594 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4595 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4598 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4599 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4601 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4602 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4603 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4604 test. It is now used for both.
4606 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4607 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4608 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4609 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4610 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4611 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4613 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4614 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4615 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4618 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4619 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4620 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4622 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4623 experimental DomainKeys support:
4625 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4626 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4627 the control was given.
4629 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4631 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4633 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4635 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4636 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4637 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4640 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4641 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4642 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4643 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4644 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4645 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4648 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4649 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4650 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4651 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4652 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4653 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4655 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4656 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4657 do -d+all out of habit.
4659 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4660 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4663 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4664 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4665 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4666 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4667 record types that Exim uses.
4669 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4670 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4671 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4672 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4673 non-existent file that was broken.
4675 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4676 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4678 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4679 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4680 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4682 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4684 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4685 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4686 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4687 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4688 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4691 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4692 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4693 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4694 at a slight CPU cost.
4696 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4697 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4699 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4702 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4704 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4705 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4711 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4712 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4714 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4716 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4718 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4719 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4721 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4722 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4723 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4724 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4725 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4726 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4729 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4730 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4731 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4732 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4735 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4736 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4737 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4738 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4739 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4740 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4741 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4744 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4745 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4747 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4748 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4749 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4750 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4751 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4752 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4754 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4755 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4756 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4757 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4759 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4762 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4763 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4765 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4766 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4767 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4768 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4771 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4773 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4774 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4776 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4777 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4778 to what was transported.)
4780 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4782 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4783 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4784 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4785 spamd_address settings.
4787 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4788 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4789 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4790 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4791 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4793 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4795 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4796 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4797 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4798 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4799 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4801 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4802 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4804 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4805 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4806 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4807 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4808 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4809 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4810 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4813 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4814 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4815 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4816 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4817 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4818 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4819 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4822 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4824 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4825 driver and ACL definitions.
4827 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4828 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4830 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4831 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4832 understands it better than I do:
4834 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4835 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4837 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4838 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4839 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4840 => three warnings about OTP not working
4841 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4843 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4844 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4845 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4846 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4848 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4849 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4851 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4852 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4853 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4855 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4856 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4859 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4860 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4863 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4864 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4865 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4867 warn !verify = sender
4868 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4870 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4871 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4873 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4875 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4876 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4878 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4879 nomenclature these days.)
4881 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4882 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4884 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4885 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4886 . First host does not offer TLS;
4887 . First host accepts first address;
4888 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4889 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4890 . Second host accepts second address.
4891 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4892 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4895 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4896 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4897 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4898 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4899 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4901 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4902 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4904 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4905 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4907 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4908 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4909 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4911 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4912 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4915 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4917 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4918 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4919 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4920 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4921 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4922 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4923 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4925 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4926 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4927 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4928 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4929 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4931 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4932 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4935 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4936 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4937 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4938 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4939 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4940 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4942 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4944 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4945 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4946 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4947 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4948 printable escape sequences.
4950 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4951 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4954 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4955 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4958 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4959 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4960 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4961 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4962 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4964 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4965 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4966 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4968 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4970 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4971 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4974 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4975 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4976 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4977 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4978 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4979 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4980 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4981 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4982 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4985 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4986 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4987 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4988 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4992 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4993 ----------------------------------------
4995 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4996 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4997 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4998 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4999 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5000 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5003 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5004 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5005 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5006 historical information.
5012 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5014 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5015 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5017 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5018 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5021 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5022 filter fails to execute.
5024 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5025 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5026 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5027 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5028 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5030 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5032 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5033 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5034 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5035 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5037 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5038 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5039 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5040 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5041 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5043 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5045 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5047 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5048 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5049 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5050 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5052 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5053 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5054 sender verification.
5056 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5057 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5059 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5061 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5064 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5065 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5067 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5068 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5070 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5071 information about exactly what failed.
5073 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5075 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5076 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5077 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5079 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5080 It is now set to "smtps".
5082 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5083 ignore_target_hosts.
5085 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5086 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5087 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5088 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5091 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5092 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5093 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5095 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5096 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5097 wake it up if nothing else does.
5099 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5100 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5101 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5104 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5105 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5107 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5109 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5110 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5111 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5112 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5113 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5114 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5115 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5116 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5118 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5119 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5120 than one IP address.
5122 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5123 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5124 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5125 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5127 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5128 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5129 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5130 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5131 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5134 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5135 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5136 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5137 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5139 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5140 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5143 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5144 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5145 $sender_host_address.
5147 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5148 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5149 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5150 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5151 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5154 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5156 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5157 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5159 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5160 just the host names, not the priorities.
5162 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5163 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5164 controlled by a keyword.
5166 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5167 multiple records are returned.
5169 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5170 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5173 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5175 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5176 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5178 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5179 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5180 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5182 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5184 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5186 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5188 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5189 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5190 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5191 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5192 because the tests only now provoked it.
5194 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5195 (this can affect the format of dates).
5197 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5198 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5199 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5200 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5202 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5204 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5205 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5206 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5207 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5209 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5210 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5211 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5213 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5216 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5217 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5218 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5219 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5220 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5221 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5224 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5225 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5226 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5229 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5230 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5231 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5233 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5234 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5235 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5236 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5237 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5238 so I produce this patch..."
5240 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5241 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5244 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5245 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5246 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5247 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5250 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5252 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5253 long debug lines gets shown.
5255 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5256 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5258 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5260 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5261 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5262 of $primary_hostname.
5264 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5265 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5266 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5267 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5268 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5269 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5270 by change 4.50/55 above.
5272 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5273 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5274 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5275 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5276 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5277 running as the user.
5280 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5281 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5282 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5285 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5286 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5288 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5289 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5290 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5291 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5292 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5294 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5295 This has been fixed.
5297 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5298 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5299 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5300 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5303 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5305 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5306 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5307 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5308 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5310 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5311 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5313 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5314 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5315 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5317 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5318 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5319 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5322 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5323 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5324 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5326 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5327 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5328 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5329 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5331 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5332 during host lookups.
5334 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5335 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5337 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5339 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5340 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5341 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5342 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5343 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5346 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5347 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5349 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5350 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5351 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5353 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5355 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5356 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5357 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5358 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5359 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5360 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5363 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5364 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5365 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5366 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5367 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5369 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5372 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5374 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5375 "vacation" handling.
5377 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5378 OS variants using glibc.
5380 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5383 ----------------------------------------------------
5384 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5385 ----------------------------------------------------
5391 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5392 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5395 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5396 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5399 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5400 filter fails to execute.
5402 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5403 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5404 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5405 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5406 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5408 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5409 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5410 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5411 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5413 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5414 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5415 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5416 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5417 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5419 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5421 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5422 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5423 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5424 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5426 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5427 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5428 sender verification.
5430 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5431 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5433 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5434 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5436 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5437 ignore_target_hosts.
5439 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5440 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5441 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5442 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5445 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5446 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5447 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5449 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5450 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5451 wake it up if nothing else does.
5453 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5454 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5455 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5458 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5459 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5461 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5463 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5464 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5467 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5468 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5471 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5472 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5473 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5474 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5475 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5478 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5479 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5482 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5483 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5484 $sender_host_address.
5486 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5488 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5489 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5490 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5492 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5495 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5496 (this can affect the format of dates).
5498 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5499 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5500 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5501 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5503 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5504 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5505 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5507 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5508 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5509 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5510 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5512 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5513 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5514 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5516 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5519 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5520 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5521 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5522 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5523 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5524 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5527 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5528 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5529 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5530 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5533 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5534 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5535 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5536 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5537 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5538 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5539 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5541 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5542 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5543 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5544 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5545 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5546 running as the user.
5549 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5550 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5551 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5554 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5555 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5556 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5557 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5558 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5560 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5561 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5562 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5563 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5566 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5567 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5568 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5569 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5570 because the tests only now provoked it.
5576 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5577 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5578 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5579 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5580 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5581 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5582 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5584 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5585 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5588 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5590 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5592 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5593 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5596 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5597 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5598 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5599 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5600 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5602 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5603 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5605 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5607 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5609 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5612 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5613 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5615 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5616 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5617 affecting debugging statements).
5619 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5621 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5622 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5623 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5624 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5625 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5626 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5627 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5628 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5629 after the received time, and all would be well.
5631 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5632 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5633 condition in an expansion string.
5635 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5637 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5638 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5639 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5640 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5641 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5642 job under whatever limits there are.
5644 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5646 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5649 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5650 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5651 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5652 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5655 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5656 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5657 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5658 binary data in such strings.
5660 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5662 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5663 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5664 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5665 failure, which is pointless.
5667 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5669 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5671 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5672 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5673 Sender: header lines.
5675 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5676 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5677 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5679 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5680 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5681 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5682 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5683 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5686 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5687 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5688 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5689 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5690 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5692 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5693 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5694 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5697 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5698 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5700 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5701 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5703 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5705 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5707 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5709 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5712 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5714 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5716 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5717 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5718 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5719 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5721 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5722 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5728 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5729 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5730 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5732 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5733 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5734 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5735 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5736 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5737 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5739 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5740 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5741 verification failure".
5743 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5744 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5745 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5746 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5748 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5749 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5750 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5751 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5752 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5753 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5754 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5755 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5756 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5757 treated as a timeout.
5759 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5760 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5761 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5762 not set for Exim filters).
5764 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5765 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5766 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5768 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5770 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5771 try to make them clearer.
5773 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5774 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5776 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5778 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5780 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5781 only the Cygwin environment.
5783 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5784 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5785 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5786 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5787 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5789 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5790 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5791 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5792 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5793 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5794 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5795 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5797 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5798 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5800 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5802 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5803 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5804 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5806 To: susanne@some.where
5808 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5809 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5810 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5811 of addresses in From: header lines).
5813 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5814 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5815 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5817 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5818 treated as non-personal.
5820 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5821 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5823 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5825 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5827 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5828 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5829 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5831 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5832 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5834 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5835 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5836 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5837 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5838 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5839 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5841 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5842 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5843 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5844 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5845 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5846 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5847 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5848 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5850 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5852 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5853 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5855 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5856 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5857 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5859 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5860 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5862 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5863 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5864 rather than long int.
5866 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5868 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5874 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5875 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5876 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5877 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5878 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5879 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5885 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5886 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5888 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5889 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5890 socklen_t is defined.
5892 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5895 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5898 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5899 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5900 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5901 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5902 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5904 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5905 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5906 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5907 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5909 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5910 of flapping under certain conditions.
5912 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5913 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5914 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5916 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5918 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5920 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5921 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5922 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5923 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5925 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5926 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5927 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5928 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5929 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5930 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5931 preserved with the message after it was received.
5933 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5934 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5935 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5936 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5937 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5938 test suite worked just fine.
5940 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5941 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5942 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5944 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5945 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5948 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5949 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5950 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5951 does not fully solve it.
5953 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5954 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5955 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5956 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5957 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5959 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5960 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5961 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5963 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5964 string, for example:
5966 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5968 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5969 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5970 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5971 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5972 the routers could not see them.
5974 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5975 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5977 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5978 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5981 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5982 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5983 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5984 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5985 that needed quoting.
5987 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5988 was not being matched caselessly.
5990 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5993 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5994 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5995 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5996 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5997 when use_sender is false.
5999 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6001 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6003 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6005 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6006 the configuration file.
6008 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6009 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6011 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6013 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6014 bytes in the message body.
6016 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6017 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6020 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6022 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6024 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6025 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6026 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6027 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6034 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6035 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6037 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6038 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6039 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6040 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6041 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6043 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6044 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6046 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6047 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6048 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6050 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6051 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6052 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6054 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6057 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6058 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6059 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6060 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6061 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6062 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6063 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6069 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6070 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6071 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6072 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6073 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6074 default (and expected) setting.
6076 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6077 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6078 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6079 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6081 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6082 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6084 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6087 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6088 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6089 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6090 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6091 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6092 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6094 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6095 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6096 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6098 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6099 part (NOT match_host).
6101 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6103 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6104 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6105 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6106 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6107 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6108 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6109 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6110 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6111 the same named file.
6113 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6114 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6117 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6118 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6119 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6120 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6123 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6124 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6125 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6127 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6129 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6131 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6133 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6134 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6136 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6137 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6138 before starting the TLS session.
6140 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6142 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6143 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6145 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6146 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6147 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6148 colon in the middle).
6154 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6155 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6156 multiple configurations are in use.
6158 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6159 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6160 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6161 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6162 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6163 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6165 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6166 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6168 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6169 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6170 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6172 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6173 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6176 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6177 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6179 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6181 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6182 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6184 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6192 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6193 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6194 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6195 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6196 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6198 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6201 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6202 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6203 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6204 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6205 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6206 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6208 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6209 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6210 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6211 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6212 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6213 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6214 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6217 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6218 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6219 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6220 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6221 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6223 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6225 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6226 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6227 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6229 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6231 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6232 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6233 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6236 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6237 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6239 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6240 Three changes have been made:
6242 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6243 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6244 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6245 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6246 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6248 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6251 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6252 the modified behaviour.
6258 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6261 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6262 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6264 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6265 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6266 try to track down a specific problem.
6268 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6269 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6270 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6272 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6275 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6276 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6277 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6278 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6279 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6280 some earlier ones do not.
6282 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6284 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6285 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6286 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6287 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6288 address literals are enabled, of course).
6290 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6292 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6293 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6294 by a command such as
6298 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6300 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6302 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6303 remained set. It is now erased.
6305 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6306 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6308 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6309 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6310 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6311 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6312 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6313 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6314 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6315 appropriate error code.
6317 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6318 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6319 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6320 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6321 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6322 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6324 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6325 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6326 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6328 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6329 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6330 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6331 terminate the header.
6333 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6334 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6335 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6337 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6338 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6339 (4.30/29). In particular:
6341 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6344 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6345 to write a maildirsize file.
6347 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6348 the transport, the new value overrides.
6350 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6353 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6354 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6355 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6358 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6359 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6360 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6363 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6364 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6365 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6367 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6368 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6371 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6372 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6373 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6375 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6377 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6379 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6381 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6382 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6385 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6386 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6387 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6388 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6389 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6390 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6391 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6394 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6395 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6396 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6397 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6398 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6401 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6402 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6403 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6404 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6405 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6406 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6407 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6408 cached value only when the same options are set.
6410 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6412 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6413 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6414 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6415 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6416 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6418 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6419 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6420 it is clearly obsolete.
6422 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6425 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6426 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6427 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6430 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6431 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6432 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6433 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6434 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6436 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6437 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6438 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6439 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6441 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6443 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6445 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6446 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6449 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6450 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6451 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6452 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6453 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6454 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6457 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6458 with the -f command-line option.
6460 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6461 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6462 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6463 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6464 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6465 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6467 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6468 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6471 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6472 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6473 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6474 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6475 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6476 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6477 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6478 buffer is too small.
6480 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6481 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6483 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6484 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6485 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6486 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6487 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6488 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6489 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6490 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6491 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6493 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6494 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6495 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6497 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6498 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6501 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6502 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6503 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6504 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6505 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6507 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6508 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6509 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6510 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6513 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6515 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6517 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6518 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6520 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6521 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6522 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6524 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6525 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6526 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6527 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6528 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6530 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6531 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6532 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6533 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6534 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6535 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6536 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6538 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6539 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6540 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6541 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6542 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6543 the test of how many are available.
6545 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6546 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6547 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6548 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6549 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6550 new message is started.
6552 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6553 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6555 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6556 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6558 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6559 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6560 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6563 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6564 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6565 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6566 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6567 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6568 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6569 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6571 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6572 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6573 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6574 interpreted as octal.
6576 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6579 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6580 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6581 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6582 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6583 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6584 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6586 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6587 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6588 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6589 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6591 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6592 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6593 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6594 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6596 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6597 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6600 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6601 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6603 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6605 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6606 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6607 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6608 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6610 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6611 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6612 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6613 supplied", which is not helpful.
6615 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6616 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6617 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6619 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6620 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6621 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6622 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6623 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6624 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6625 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6626 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6628 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6629 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6630 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6631 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6632 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6634 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6635 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6636 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6637 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6638 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6639 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6641 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6642 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6643 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6645 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6647 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6648 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6649 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6652 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6654 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6655 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6656 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6657 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6658 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6659 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6660 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6661 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6663 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6664 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6665 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6666 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6667 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6669 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6672 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6673 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6674 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6675 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6676 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6677 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6678 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6679 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6680 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6686 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6687 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6688 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6690 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6693 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6694 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6695 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6697 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6698 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6699 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6700 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6701 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6702 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6704 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6705 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6706 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6707 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6708 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6709 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6710 the Exim test suite.
6712 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6713 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6714 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6715 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6717 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6718 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6719 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6720 specify it in this variable.
6722 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6723 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6724 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6725 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6727 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6728 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6729 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6730 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6732 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6733 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6734 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6735 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6736 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6738 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6740 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6743 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6744 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6745 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6746 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6747 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6749 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6750 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6752 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6753 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6754 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6755 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6756 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6758 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6759 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6761 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6762 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6763 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6765 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6766 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6768 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6769 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6771 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6772 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6773 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6775 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6776 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6778 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6779 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6780 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6781 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6783 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6785 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6786 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6787 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6788 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6790 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6792 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6793 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6795 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6797 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6798 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6799 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6800 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6801 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6802 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6804 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6806 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6807 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6810 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6812 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6813 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6815 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6816 550 Sender verify failed
6818 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6819 the final line of the response.
6821 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6822 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6823 all other user lookups.
6825 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6828 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6829 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6830 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6831 result into an int without checking.
6833 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6834 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6835 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6837 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6838 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6839 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6840 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6842 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6845 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6846 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6848 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6849 to the empty sender.
6851 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6852 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6853 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6854 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6855 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6856 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6857 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6860 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6861 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6862 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6863 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6866 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6867 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6869 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6872 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6873 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6875 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6877 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6878 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6881 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6882 as soon as it is encountered.
6884 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6886 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6889 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6890 recognizes a tab character.
6892 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6893 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6894 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6895 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6897 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6899 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6902 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6904 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6906 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6907 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6910 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6911 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6912 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6913 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6914 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6916 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6917 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6919 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6920 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6921 list (.included file names were always shown).
6923 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6924 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6925 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6928 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6929 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6931 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6933 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6935 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6937 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6938 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6939 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6940 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6941 failures to open the logs.
6943 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6944 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6945 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6946 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6947 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6948 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6949 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6955 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6956 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6957 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6960 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6961 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6962 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6964 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6965 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6966 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6968 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6969 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6970 causing some misleading effects.
6972 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6973 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6974 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6976 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6977 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6978 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6979 queue-runner function directly.
6985 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6988 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6989 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6990 was always written to the default place.
6992 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6993 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6994 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6996 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6998 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7000 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7001 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7002 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7004 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7005 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7008 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7009 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7010 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7012 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7013 command line option is disabled.
7015 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7016 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7018 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7020 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7022 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7023 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7025 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7027 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7028 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7029 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7030 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7031 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7032 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7034 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7035 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7038 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7039 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7041 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7042 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7044 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7045 received was valid base64.
7047 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7048 name of the variable that was being set.
7050 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7052 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7053 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7054 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7055 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7056 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7057 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7059 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7061 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7062 nor realm was specified.
7064 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7065 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7066 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7067 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7069 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7070 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7071 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7073 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7074 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7075 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7077 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7078 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7079 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7080 some systems use these upper case variants.
7082 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7083 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7084 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7085 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7087 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7089 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7090 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7092 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7093 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7096 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7098 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7099 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7100 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7101 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7103 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7106 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7107 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7108 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7110 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7111 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7113 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7114 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7115 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7116 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7118 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7119 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7120 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7122 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7124 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7125 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7126 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7127 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7130 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7131 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7132 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7134 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7136 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7137 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7139 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7140 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7142 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7143 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7144 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7145 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7146 when emails are that large.
7153 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7154 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7156 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7157 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7158 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7160 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7161 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7162 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7164 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7165 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7166 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7167 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7168 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7170 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7171 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7172 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7173 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7174 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7177 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7178 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7179 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7180 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7181 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7182 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7183 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7184 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7185 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7186 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7187 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7188 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7189 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7190 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7192 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7193 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7196 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7197 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7198 error should be diagnosed.
7200 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7201 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7202 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7203 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7204 appeared instead of "NULL".
7206 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7207 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7208 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7209 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7210 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7211 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7214 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7215 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7216 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7222 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7223 or receiver verification errors.
7225 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7228 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7229 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7230 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7231 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7233 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7234 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7235 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7236 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7237 shouldn't happen again.
7239 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7240 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7241 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7243 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7244 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7246 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7248 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7249 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7251 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7252 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7255 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7256 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7257 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7259 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7260 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7261 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7262 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7264 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7265 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7266 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7267 to define what should happen).
7269 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7270 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7271 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7273 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7275 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7277 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7278 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7280 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7281 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7282 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7283 structure in all cases.
7285 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7286 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7287 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7288 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7290 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7291 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7294 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7295 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7297 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7298 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7300 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7301 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7302 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7304 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7305 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7306 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7308 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7309 the book and for uniformity.
7311 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7313 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7314 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7315 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7316 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7317 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7318 non-existent command as the problem.
7320 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7321 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7322 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7324 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7326 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7327 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7328 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7330 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7331 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7332 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7333 timestamps using strftime().
7335 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7336 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7338 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7339 transport-time rewrites.
7341 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7342 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7343 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7344 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7346 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7347 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7349 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7350 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7351 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7352 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7355 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7356 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7357 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7358 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7359 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7360 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7361 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7363 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7364 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7365 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7366 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7367 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7369 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7370 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7371 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7372 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7373 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7374 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7375 remaining text gets split now.
7377 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7378 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7379 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7380 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7382 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7383 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7384 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7385 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7388 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7389 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7390 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7391 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7392 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7393 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7394 passed through if needed.
7396 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7397 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7398 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7399 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7400 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7401 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7403 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7404 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7405 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7406 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7407 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7409 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7410 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7411 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7412 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7413 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7415 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7416 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7419 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7420 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7421 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7422 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7423 mayhem of various kinds.
7425 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7426 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7427 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7428 the right test for positive values.
7430 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7431 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7432 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7433 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7434 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7435 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7436 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7437 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7438 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7439 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7442 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7445 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7446 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7449 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7450 the existing equality matching.
7452 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7453 dealing with inode numbers.
7455 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7456 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7457 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7459 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7460 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7461 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7462 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7465 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7466 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7467 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7468 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7469 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7470 relay addresses has also been removed.
7472 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7474 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7475 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7476 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7478 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7479 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7480 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7481 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7482 processing applies to CR:
7484 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7485 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7487 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7488 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7489 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7490 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7492 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7493 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7494 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7496 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7497 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7498 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7499 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7500 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7501 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7504 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7507 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7508 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7509 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7510 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7513 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7515 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7517 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7519 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7520 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7521 not considered personal.
7523 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7525 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7527 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7529 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7530 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7531 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7532 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7533 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7534 header lines, and spool format errors.
7536 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7537 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7538 for more flexibility.
7540 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7541 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7542 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7544 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7547 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7548 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7549 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7550 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7551 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7552 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7553 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7554 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7555 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7557 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7558 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7559 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7560 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7561 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7562 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7563 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7565 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7566 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7567 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7569 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7570 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7571 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7572 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7573 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7574 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7575 instead of killing the process with assert().
7577 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7578 than Unicode encoding.
7580 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7581 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7582 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7583 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7585 77. Added process_log_path.
7587 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7588 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7590 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7591 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7593 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7594 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7595 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7597 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7598 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7599 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7600 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7601 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7604 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7605 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7608 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7609 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7610 they will be used during message reception.
7616 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.