1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
101 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
102 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
103 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
106 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
107 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
109 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
110 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
111 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
112 not be modified by local-scan code.
114 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
115 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
117 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
118 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
121 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
122 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
124 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
125 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
128 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
129 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
130 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
132 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
133 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
134 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
136 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
137 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
138 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
139 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
140 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
141 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
142 Assorted crashes happen.
144 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
145 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
146 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
149 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
150 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
151 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
152 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
154 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
155 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
156 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
159 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
161 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
162 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
165 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
166 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
167 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
169 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
170 result of expansion operators and items.
172 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
173 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
174 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
175 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
177 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
179 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
180 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
181 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
182 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
185 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
186 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
188 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
189 Previously only the domain part was returned.
191 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
192 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
193 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
194 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
196 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
197 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
198 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
199 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
201 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
202 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
203 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
204 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
205 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
208 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
209 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
210 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
212 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
213 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
214 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
215 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
217 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
218 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
219 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
220 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
222 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
223 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
224 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
225 Previously only the server IP was used.
227 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
228 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
229 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
230 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
232 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
233 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
234 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
236 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
237 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
238 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
241 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
242 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
244 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
245 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
251 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
252 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
253 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
255 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
256 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
257 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
258 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
260 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
261 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
262 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
263 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
264 so could be handling tainted values.
266 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
267 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
268 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
270 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
271 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
272 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
275 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
276 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
277 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
278 to align better with RFC 6125.
280 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
281 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
282 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
283 by adding a release action in that path.
285 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
286 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
287 dynamically-created buffers.
289 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
290 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
291 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
292 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
294 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
295 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
296 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
297 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
299 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
300 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
301 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
303 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
304 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
305 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
306 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
308 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
309 excluded, not matching the documentation.
311 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
312 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
314 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
315 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
316 this was a coding error.
318 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
319 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
320 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
321 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
322 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
323 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
324 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
326 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
327 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
328 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
329 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
331 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
332 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
333 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
334 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
335 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
337 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
338 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
341 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
342 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
343 domain-parking registrar.
345 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
346 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
347 after removing the newline.
349 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
350 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
351 option set, which was previously used.
353 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
356 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
357 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
358 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
359 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
361 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
362 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
363 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
364 exim.dev.20160529.3).
366 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
367 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
368 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
370 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
371 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
372 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
375 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
376 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
377 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
379 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
380 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
381 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
382 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
385 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
386 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
387 there, handle PRX and TFO.
389 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
390 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
391 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
392 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
393 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
395 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
396 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
397 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
398 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
401 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
402 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
404 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
407 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
408 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
409 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
410 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
411 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
413 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
415 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
416 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
417 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
418 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
419 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
420 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
422 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
423 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
425 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
426 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
427 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
429 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
430 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
433 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
434 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
435 of a new variable: $auth4.
437 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
438 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
439 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
440 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
441 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
443 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
444 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
445 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
446 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
448 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
449 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
450 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
452 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
453 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
454 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
455 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
458 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
459 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
460 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
463 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
464 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
465 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
466 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
468 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
469 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
471 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
472 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
473 looked as if if might be one.
475 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
476 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
477 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
478 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
479 messages can show the proxy information.
481 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
482 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
483 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
484 "queue_time_exclusive".
486 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
487 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
488 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
490 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
491 making it unusable in complex expressions.
493 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
494 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
497 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
499 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
501 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
503 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
504 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
505 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
506 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
508 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
509 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
511 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
512 better. Reported by Qualys.
514 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
515 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
518 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
520 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
523 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
525 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
526 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
527 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
528 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
530 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
531 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
533 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
534 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
535 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
536 mode until after various protocol state checks.
537 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
539 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
541 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
542 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
544 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
547 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
548 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
549 executed child processes (if any).
551 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
554 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
555 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
556 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
557 been reported on other platforms.
559 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
561 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
562 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
563 Not supported on Solaris 10.
565 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
566 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
567 since fakereject was originally introduced.
569 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
570 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
572 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
573 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
574 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
577 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
578 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
579 which only permit IP addresses.
585 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
586 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
587 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
589 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
591 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
592 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
595 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
596 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
597 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
599 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
601 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
603 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
604 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
605 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
607 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
608 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
609 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
611 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
612 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
614 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
615 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
618 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
619 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
620 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
621 should both provide the file and set the option.
622 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
624 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
625 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
627 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
628 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
629 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
630 Authentication-Results: header.
632 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
633 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
634 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
635 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
637 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
638 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
639 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
640 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
641 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
642 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
643 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
645 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
646 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
647 copies while it is still usable.
649 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
650 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
651 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
653 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
654 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
656 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
657 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
658 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
659 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
661 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
662 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
663 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
666 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
667 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
668 - the pipe transport command
669 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
670 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
672 - paths used by single-key lookups
673 Previously this was permitted.
675 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
676 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
677 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
678 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
680 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
681 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
682 support larger malloc requests.
684 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
685 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
686 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
687 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
689 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
690 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
691 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
692 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
695 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
696 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
697 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
698 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
699 data being length-specified.
701 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
702 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
703 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
704 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
706 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
707 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
708 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
709 not being properly tracked.
711 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
712 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
713 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
714 minute could be seen.
716 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
717 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
718 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
720 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
721 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
723 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
724 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
727 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
729 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
730 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
732 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
733 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
734 filesystem as sufficient validation.
736 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
737 argument is supplied.
739 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
740 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
741 access under Exim's current working directory.
743 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
744 Previously no event was raised.
746 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
747 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
748 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
751 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
752 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
753 the size of the signature hash.
755 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
756 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
758 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
759 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
760 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
761 dropped between messages.
763 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
764 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
765 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
766 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
768 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
769 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
770 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
771 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
772 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
773 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
774 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
775 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
776 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
778 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
779 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
780 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
782 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
783 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
790 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
791 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
793 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
794 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
797 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
800 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
802 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
804 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
805 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
807 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
808 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
809 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
810 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
811 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
812 suitably configured).
814 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
815 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
817 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
818 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
821 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
822 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
824 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
825 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
826 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
827 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
830 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
831 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
832 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
834 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
837 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
838 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
840 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
841 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
842 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
843 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
846 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
847 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
848 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
849 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
852 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
853 shared (NFS) environment.
855 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
856 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
859 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
860 on some platforms for bit 31.
862 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
863 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
864 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
865 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
866 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
867 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
868 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
869 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
871 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
873 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
874 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
876 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
877 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
880 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
881 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
884 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
885 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
886 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
889 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
890 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
891 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
893 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
894 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
895 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
896 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
897 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
899 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
902 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
903 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
904 be requested on all coneections.
906 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
907 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
909 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
911 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
912 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
913 one for these; the option was ignored.
915 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
916 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
917 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
918 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
920 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
921 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
922 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
925 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
926 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
927 error ignored was made.
929 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
931 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
932 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
933 values, to catch one form of exploit.
935 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
936 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
937 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
939 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
940 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
943 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
944 them in our smtp response.
946 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
947 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
948 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
949 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
950 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
952 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
953 link count into consideration.
955 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
956 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
958 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
959 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
960 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
963 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
965 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
967 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
969 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
970 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
971 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
972 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
974 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
976 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
977 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
980 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
981 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
982 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
984 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
985 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
986 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
988 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
989 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
990 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
991 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
992 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
993 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
994 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
995 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
997 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
998 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
999 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1001 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1002 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1003 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1005 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1006 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1013 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1014 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1016 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1017 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1019 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1020 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1021 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1023 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1024 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1025 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1027 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1028 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1029 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1030 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1031 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1034 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1035 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1037 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1038 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1039 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1040 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1041 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1042 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1043 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1045 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1046 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1048 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1051 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1052 Previously this would segfault.
1054 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1057 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1058 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1059 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1060 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1061 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1062 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1064 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1066 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1067 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1068 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1069 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1071 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1073 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1074 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1075 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1076 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1078 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1080 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1082 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1083 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1084 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1086 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1087 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1088 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1090 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1092 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1093 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1094 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1095 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1097 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1098 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1099 promised '?' replacement.
1101 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1103 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1104 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1105 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1106 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1107 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1109 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1110 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1111 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1113 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1114 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1115 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1117 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1118 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1119 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1121 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1122 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1123 hope that is portable enough.
1125 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1126 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1127 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1128 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1130 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1131 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1132 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1134 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1135 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1136 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1137 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1139 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1140 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1142 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1143 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1144 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1145 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1147 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1148 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1149 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1151 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1152 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1153 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1154 the previous G, M, k.
1156 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1157 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1160 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1161 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1162 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1163 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1165 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1166 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1168 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1169 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1170 off past the nul-terimation.
1172 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1173 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1174 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1175 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1176 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1178 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1180 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1181 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1182 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1185 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1186 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1188 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1189 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1190 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1192 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1193 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1194 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1196 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1197 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1203 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1204 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1205 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1206 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1207 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1208 be defined in redis_servers.
1210 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1211 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1213 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1214 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1215 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1216 extant use locations.
1218 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1219 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1221 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1222 Previously only the last row was returned.
1224 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1225 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1226 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1227 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1230 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1231 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1232 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1233 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1234 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1235 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1236 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1237 Main pool for expansions.
1238 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1239 active in the testsuite.
1240 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1242 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1243 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1244 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1245 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1248 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1249 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1252 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1253 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1254 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1256 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1257 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1258 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1260 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1261 rows affected is given instead).
1263 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1264 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1266 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1267 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1268 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1269 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1270 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1272 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1273 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1274 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1276 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1277 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1278 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1279 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1282 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1283 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1284 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1287 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1289 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1290 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1292 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1293 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1294 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1296 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1297 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1298 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1301 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1302 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1304 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1305 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1306 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1308 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1309 for the build is renamed.
1311 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1312 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1313 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1315 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1316 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1317 result replacing the original.
1319 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1320 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1321 and the resources needed to be freed.
1323 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1325 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1328 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1329 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1330 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1331 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1333 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1334 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1336 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1337 newer versions of the scanner.
1339 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1340 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1341 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1342 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1343 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1344 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1345 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1347 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1348 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1349 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1350 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1351 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1352 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1353 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1354 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1355 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1356 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1358 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1359 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1361 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1363 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1364 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1366 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1367 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1369 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1370 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1371 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1373 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1374 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1375 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1376 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1378 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1379 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1382 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1383 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1385 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1386 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1387 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1388 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1389 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1391 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1392 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1395 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1396 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1398 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1401 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1402 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1403 "bare" representation.
1405 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1406 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1407 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1408 corrupted the output.
1414 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1415 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1416 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1417 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1419 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1420 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1422 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1423 This permits better logging.
1425 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1426 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1427 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1428 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1429 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1430 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1432 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1433 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1436 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1437 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1438 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1440 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1441 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1443 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1444 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1445 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1446 client, there is no benefit for these.
1447 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1448 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1449 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1452 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1453 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1455 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1456 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1457 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1459 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1460 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1462 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1463 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1464 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1465 signature and again for transmission.
1467 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1468 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1469 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1471 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1472 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1473 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1474 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1475 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1476 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1477 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1479 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1480 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1481 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1482 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1484 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1485 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1486 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1487 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1488 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1489 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1492 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1493 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1494 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1495 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1498 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1499 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1500 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1501 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1504 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1505 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1508 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1509 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1510 banner-time rejection.
1512 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1515 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1516 is the name of a transport.
1519 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1521 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1522 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1524 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1525 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1526 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1529 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1530 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1531 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1532 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1534 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1535 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1536 initial verify call returned a defer.
1538 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1539 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1541 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1542 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1544 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1545 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1547 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1548 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1550 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1551 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1554 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1555 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1557 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1558 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1559 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1561 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1562 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1563 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1564 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1566 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1567 and confused the parent.
1569 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1570 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1572 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1575 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1576 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1577 out-of-order delivery.
1579 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1580 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1581 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1584 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1585 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1588 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1589 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1590 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1592 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1593 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1594 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1595 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1596 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1597 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1599 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1600 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1601 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1603 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1604 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1605 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1607 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1608 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1609 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1610 though a different problem.
1616 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1617 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1619 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1621 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1622 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1624 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1625 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1627 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1628 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1629 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1630 before acknowledging the chunk.
1632 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1633 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1634 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1636 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1637 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1638 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1641 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1642 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1643 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1645 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1646 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1648 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1649 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1650 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1651 body hash calculated value.
1653 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1654 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1655 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1657 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1659 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1660 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1662 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1663 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1664 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1666 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1667 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1668 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1669 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1670 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1671 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1673 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1674 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1675 past that check, despite the cost.
1677 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1678 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1679 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1681 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1682 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1683 TLS library to consume.
1685 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1687 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1689 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1690 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1691 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1692 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1693 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1694 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1695 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1697 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1699 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1701 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1702 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1703 should be warning-free.
1705 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1707 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1708 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1710 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1711 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1712 general solution here.
1714 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1715 already-broken messages in the queue.
1717 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1719 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1725 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1726 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1728 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1729 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1730 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1732 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1733 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1734 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1735 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1736 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1737 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1738 if one fails this test.
1739 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1740 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1742 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1743 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1745 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1746 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1748 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1749 in rewrites and routers.
1751 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1752 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1754 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1755 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1757 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1759 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1762 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1763 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1764 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1765 connection after a verify cache hit.
1766 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1768 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1769 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1771 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1772 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1773 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1774 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1775 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1777 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1778 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1780 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1781 Previously they were not counted.
1783 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1784 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1785 that needed the lookup.
1787 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1788 distinguished as "(=".
1790 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1791 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1793 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1795 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1796 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1798 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1799 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1801 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1802 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1805 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1806 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1807 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1808 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1810 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1812 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1813 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1814 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1816 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1817 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1818 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1821 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1822 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1823 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1826 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1827 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1828 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1830 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1831 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1834 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1836 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1837 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1839 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1840 are not in the system include path.
1842 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1843 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1844 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1845 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1847 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1848 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1849 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1851 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1853 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1854 an incoming connection.
1856 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1859 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1860 fallback to "prime256v1".
1862 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1863 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1869 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1870 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1871 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1872 client dropping the TLS connection.
1874 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1875 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1877 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1878 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1879 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1880 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1883 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1884 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1885 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1886 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1887 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1888 check on the next write.
1890 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1891 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1892 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1893 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1894 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1896 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1897 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1899 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1900 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1901 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1903 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1904 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1905 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1906 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1908 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1909 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1911 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1912 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1914 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1915 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1916 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1919 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1921 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1923 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1925 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1926 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1928 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1929 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1931 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1933 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1934 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1936 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1938 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1939 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1941 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1943 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1944 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1945 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1946 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1947 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1948 they will retry in-clear.
1949 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1950 at installation time.
1952 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1953 with the $config_file variable.
1955 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1956 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1957 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1958 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1959 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1961 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1962 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1963 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1964 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1965 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1967 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1969 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1970 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1971 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1972 list order is no longer honoured.
1974 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1975 for DKIM processing.
1977 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1978 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1980 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1981 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1982 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1983 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1985 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1986 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1988 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1989 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1991 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1992 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1994 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1996 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1997 cached by the daemon.
1999 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2000 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2002 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2003 keys are given for lookup.
2005 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2006 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2007 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2008 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2010 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2011 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2012 server-side so match that on older versions.
2014 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2015 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2016 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2018 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2019 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2021 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2022 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2023 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2024 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2025 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2026 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2027 initial truncated version.
2029 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2031 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2033 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2034 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2036 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2038 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2040 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2041 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2044 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2045 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2048 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2049 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2051 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2052 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2055 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2056 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2057 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2059 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2060 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2061 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2062 extraction. Accept either.
2068 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2071 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2073 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2076 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2077 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2078 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2079 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2081 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2082 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2083 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2085 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2086 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2087 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2090 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2093 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2094 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2095 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2096 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2097 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2099 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2100 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2101 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2103 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2105 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2106 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2108 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2109 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2111 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2114 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2115 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2117 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2118 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2119 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2121 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2122 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2123 specify a port-range.
2125 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2126 timeout value per server.
2128 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2129 now have the list separator specified.
2131 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2134 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2137 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2139 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2140 rather than the verbs used.
2142 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2143 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2145 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2147 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2148 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2150 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2151 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2153 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2154 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2156 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2158 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2160 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2161 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2162 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2163 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2165 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2167 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2168 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2170 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2171 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2173 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2175 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2177 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2179 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2180 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2182 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2183 added for tls authenticator.
2185 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2191 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2192 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2193 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2194 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2195 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2196 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2197 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2199 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2200 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2201 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2202 function when detected.
2204 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2205 cause callback expansion.
2207 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2208 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2209 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2210 instead of bool when processing it.
2212 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2213 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2215 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2217 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2219 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2221 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2222 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2224 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2225 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2226 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2227 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2228 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2229 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2231 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2232 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2235 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2236 version 3.3.6 or later.
2238 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2239 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2240 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2241 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2242 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2243 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2246 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2247 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2249 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2250 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2251 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2254 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2255 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2256 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2258 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2259 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2261 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2262 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2265 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2267 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2268 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2270 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2271 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2274 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2276 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2279 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2280 output list separator was used.
2285 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2286 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2289 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2290 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2292 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2294 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2295 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2301 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2303 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2304 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2305 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2306 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2307 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2308 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2310 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2311 utilities have not been installed.
2313 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2314 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2316 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2317 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2319 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2320 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2321 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2322 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2324 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2326 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2327 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2329 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2332 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2334 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2335 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2336 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2338 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2339 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2340 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2341 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2342 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2343 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2345 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2347 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2348 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2350 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2353 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2355 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2357 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2358 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2360 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2361 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2363 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2365 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2367 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2368 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2370 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2371 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2372 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2374 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2375 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2376 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2379 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2381 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2382 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2385 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2386 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2389 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2390 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2392 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2393 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2395 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2397 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2398 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2399 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2401 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2402 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2404 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2405 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2408 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2409 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2410 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2412 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2414 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2415 Christian Aistleitner.
2417 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2419 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2420 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2422 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2423 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2425 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2426 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2428 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2429 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2431 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2432 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2434 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2435 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2436 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2438 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2440 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2441 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2444 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2446 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2447 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2454 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2456 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2457 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2459 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2462 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2463 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2466 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2468 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2469 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2470 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2471 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2472 using channel bindings instead).
2474 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2475 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2476 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2477 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2478 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2481 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2483 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2485 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2486 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2488 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2489 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2490 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2492 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2494 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2496 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2497 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2499 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2501 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2503 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2505 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2506 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2508 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2510 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2511 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2514 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2515 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2517 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2518 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2521 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2523 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2525 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2526 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2528 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2531 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2532 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2534 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2535 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2537 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2539 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2541 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2544 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2547 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2549 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2550 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2551 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2552 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2554 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2556 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2557 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2558 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2559 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2562 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2563 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2564 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2566 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2567 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2568 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2569 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2571 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2572 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2573 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2574 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2575 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2576 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2577 delivery, as in LMTP.
2579 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2580 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2582 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2584 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2588 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2589 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2590 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2591 username as equal to the username.
2593 This change corrects that bug.
2595 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2596 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2597 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2599 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2601 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2602 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2603 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2604 NULL dereference and crash.
2606 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2608 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2609 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2610 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2612 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2614 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2615 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2616 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2617 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2618 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2619 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2620 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2621 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2622 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2623 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2624 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2626 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2627 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2629 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2630 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2633 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2634 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2635 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2636 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2637 an empty string is now equivalent.
2639 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2640 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2641 not performing validation itself.
2643 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2644 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2646 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2649 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2651 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2652 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2653 other false fix of the same issue.
2654 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2657 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2658 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2660 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2661 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2662 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2664 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2665 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2666 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2668 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2670 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2672 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2673 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2675 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2678 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2679 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2680 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2681 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2682 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2684 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2685 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2687 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2688 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2691 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2692 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2693 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2694 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2696 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2698 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2699 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2700 from multiple comments on this bug.
2702 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2704 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2705 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2708 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2709 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2711 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2712 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2718 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2720 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2726 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2727 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2728 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2730 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2732 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2735 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2737 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2739 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2741 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2742 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2744 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2745 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2747 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2748 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2750 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2751 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2752 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2754 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2756 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2757 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2759 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2761 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2763 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2764 non-compliant senders.
2765 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2767 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2768 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2769 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2771 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2772 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2773 in spool file corruption.
2775 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2776 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2777 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2780 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2781 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2782 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2784 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2785 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2787 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2789 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2791 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2793 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2794 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2795 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2797 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2798 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2799 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2800 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2802 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2803 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2805 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2806 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2807 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2808 resolver implementation change.
2810 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2811 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2813 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2815 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2817 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2818 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2820 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2821 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2823 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2824 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2826 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2827 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2828 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2829 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2830 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2832 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2834 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2835 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2836 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2838 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2840 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2841 read-only, out of scope).
2842 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2844 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2845 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2846 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2847 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2849 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2851 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2852 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2853 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2854 real issues in debug logging.
2856 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2857 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2859 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2860 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2861 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2863 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2864 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2865 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2868 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2869 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2871 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2872 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2873 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2874 needs to override this, it can.
2876 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2877 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2878 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2880 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2881 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2882 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2883 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2885 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2891 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2892 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2894 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2896 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2899 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2900 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2902 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2903 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2904 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2906 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2907 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2908 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2909 not safe for signals.
2911 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2912 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2913 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2914 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2917 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2919 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2920 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2921 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2922 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2923 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2925 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2926 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2927 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2928 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2929 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2930 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2932 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2933 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2934 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2935 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2937 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2938 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2939 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2940 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2942 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2943 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2944 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2945 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2946 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2947 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2948 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2949 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2950 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2952 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2953 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2954 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2955 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2957 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2958 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2959 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2960 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2961 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2962 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2963 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2964 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2965 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2966 details in the main documentation.
2968 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2970 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2972 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2973 repository when doing development or release builds.
2975 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2976 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2978 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2979 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2982 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2984 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2985 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2987 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2988 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2990 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2991 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2993 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2994 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2996 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2997 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2999 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3001 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3004 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3005 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3006 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3008 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3010 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3012 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3013 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3019 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3021 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3022 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3024 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3026 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3028 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3031 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3032 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3034 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3035 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3037 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3038 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3040 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3043 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3044 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3046 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3047 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3048 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3049 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3051 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3052 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3058 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3061 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3062 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3063 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3065 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3066 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3068 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3069 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3070 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3072 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3073 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3075 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3076 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3078 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3079 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3081 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3082 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3084 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3085 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3087 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3090 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3091 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3093 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3094 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3096 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3097 SQL string expansion failure details.
3098 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3100 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3101 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3103 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3104 extern declarations in function scope.
3105 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3107 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3108 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3109 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3112 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3113 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3115 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3116 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3118 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3119 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3121 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3122 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3124 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3125 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3128 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3130 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3132 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3133 Patch by Simon Arlott
3135 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3136 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3142 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3143 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3145 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3146 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3148 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3150 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3151 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3152 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3154 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3155 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3156 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3158 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3159 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3160 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3161 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3163 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3164 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3165 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3166 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3168 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3169 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3170 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3173 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3176 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3177 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3178 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3179 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3180 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3186 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3187 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3188 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3190 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3191 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3193 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3195 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3197 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3199 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3201 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3203 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3204 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3205 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3206 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3208 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3209 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3210 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3211 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3212 more caution in buffer sizes.
3214 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3216 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3218 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3220 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3222 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3224 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3226 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3228 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3229 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3230 ignore trailing whitespace.
3232 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3234 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3237 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3238 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3240 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3241 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3242 Notification from John Horne.
3244 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3247 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3248 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3251 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3254 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3255 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3256 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3258 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3259 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3260 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3263 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3264 option (effectively making it always true).
3266 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3267 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3269 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3270 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3272 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3273 run-time user, instead of root.
3275 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3276 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3278 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3279 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3282 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3283 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3284 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3286 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3288 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3294 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3295 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3298 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3299 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3302 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3303 Patch from Alain Williams
3305 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3307 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3308 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3310 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3311 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3313 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3315 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3317 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3318 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3320 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3322 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3324 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3325 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3326 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3328 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3329 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3331 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3332 Patch by Simon Arlott
3334 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3335 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3341 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3343 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3345 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3347 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3349 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3355 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3356 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3358 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3359 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3362 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3363 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3364 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3366 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3367 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3369 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3370 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3371 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3372 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3374 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3375 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3376 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3378 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3380 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3382 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3383 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3385 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3387 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3388 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3389 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3390 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3392 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3393 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3395 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3397 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3399 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3400 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3402 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3403 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3405 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3406 that they are available at delivery time.
3408 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3410 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3411 incoming_port log selectors.
3413 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3414 setting expands to an empty string.
3416 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3417 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3419 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3420 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3422 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3423 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3425 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3426 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3428 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3429 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3431 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3432 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3434 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3436 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3437 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3439 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3440 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3442 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3444 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3445 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3447 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3449 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3451 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3454 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3455 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3457 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3458 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3460 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3461 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3463 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3464 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3466 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3467 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3469 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3470 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3472 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3473 plus update to original patch.
3475 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3477 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3478 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3480 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3482 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3484 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3486 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3488 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3489 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3491 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3492 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3494 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3495 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3497 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3498 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3500 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3502 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3504 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3506 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3512 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3513 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3514 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3516 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3517 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3518 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3519 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3520 build errors in sieve.c.
3522 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3523 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3524 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3526 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3528 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3530 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3532 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3538 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3540 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3541 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3542 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3543 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3544 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3545 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3546 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3547 for iplsearch lookups.
3549 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3550 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3551 previously such lookups could never work.
3553 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3554 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3555 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3557 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3560 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3561 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3562 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3563 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3564 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3565 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3567 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3568 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3570 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3571 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3572 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3573 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3574 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3575 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3577 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3580 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3582 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3583 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3586 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3587 by clients under certain conditions.
3589 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3590 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3592 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3594 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3595 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3597 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3599 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3601 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3603 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3604 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3606 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3608 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3609 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3611 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3613 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3615 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3616 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3617 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3618 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3620 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3621 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3622 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3624 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3625 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3627 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3629 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3631 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3633 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3634 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3635 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3641 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3642 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3645 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3646 issue a MAIL command.
3648 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3650 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3652 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3653 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3654 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3655 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3656 item. This has been fixed.
3658 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3659 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3661 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3662 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3664 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3665 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3666 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3668 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3670 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3671 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3672 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3673 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3674 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3676 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3677 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3678 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3680 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3681 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3682 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3683 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3685 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3687 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3689 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3690 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3691 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3692 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3693 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3695 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3697 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3698 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3699 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3702 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3704 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3706 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3708 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3710 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3712 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3713 no_callout_flush is set.
3715 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3716 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3717 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3720 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3722 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3723 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3724 other ACL rejections are.
3726 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3727 with slight modification.
3729 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3730 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3732 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3733 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3736 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3737 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3739 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3741 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3742 expansion side effects.
3744 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3745 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3746 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3749 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3750 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3751 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3753 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3754 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3755 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3756 were accidentally chopped off.
3758 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3759 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3760 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3761 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3762 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3763 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3764 pipelining has not been advertised.
3766 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3768 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3769 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3770 This has been fixed.
3772 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3773 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3774 reported on Solaris.
3776 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3777 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3778 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3779 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3780 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3781 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3782 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3784 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3787 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3789 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3791 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3792 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3793 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3794 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3795 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3796 criteria to be more general.
3798 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3799 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3800 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3801 host_all_ignored option.
3803 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3804 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3805 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3806 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3807 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3808 is what is supposed to happen).
3810 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3811 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3812 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3813 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3814 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3817 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3818 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3819 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3820 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3821 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3822 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3825 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3827 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3828 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3830 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3831 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3833 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3835 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3837 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3838 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3839 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3840 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3841 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3842 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3843 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3844 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3845 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3846 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3847 least in a lot of common cases.
3849 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3850 advertised in response to EHLO.
3856 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3857 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3859 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3860 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3862 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3863 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3864 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3866 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3867 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3868 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3869 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3870 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3876 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3877 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3880 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3881 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3882 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3884 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3885 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3886 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3887 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3888 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3889 rather than extend the field.
3895 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3896 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3897 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3898 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3901 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3902 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3903 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3905 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3906 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3907 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3909 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3910 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3911 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3914 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3915 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3916 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3917 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3918 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3919 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3920 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3921 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3922 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3923 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3924 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3926 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3929 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3930 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3931 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3932 ignores EPIPE as well.
3934 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3935 (quoted-printable decoding).
3937 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3938 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3940 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3942 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3944 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3946 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3947 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3949 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3952 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3953 miscellaneous code fixes
3955 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3958 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3959 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3960 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3961 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3962 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3963 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3964 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3965 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3967 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3968 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3969 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3970 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3972 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3973 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3974 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3975 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3976 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3977 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3978 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3979 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3980 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3982 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3985 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3986 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3987 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3988 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3989 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3990 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3991 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3992 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3994 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3995 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3998 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3999 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4000 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4001 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4002 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4003 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4004 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4005 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4006 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4007 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4008 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4009 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4010 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4012 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4013 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4014 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4015 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4016 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4017 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4018 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4020 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4021 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4022 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4023 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4024 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4025 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4026 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4027 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4028 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4029 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4031 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4032 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4033 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4034 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4035 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4037 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4038 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4039 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4040 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4041 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4042 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4043 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4045 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4046 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4047 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4048 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4049 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4050 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4053 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4054 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4055 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4058 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4059 if any retry times were supplied.
4061 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4062 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4063 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4065 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4067 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4069 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4070 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4071 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4072 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4073 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4074 before) are ignored.
4076 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4077 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4079 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4080 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4081 committing the later change.]
4083 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4084 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4085 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4086 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4087 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4088 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4089 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4090 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4091 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4093 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4094 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4095 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4096 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4097 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4098 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4099 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4100 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4101 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4103 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4104 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4105 hammering the server.
4107 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4108 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4110 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4112 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4113 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4114 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4116 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4117 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4118 one case where this was not true.
4120 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4121 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4122 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4123 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4126 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4127 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4128 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4129 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4130 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4131 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4132 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4133 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4134 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4137 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4138 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4139 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4140 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4142 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4143 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4145 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4146 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4147 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4149 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4151 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4153 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4155 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4156 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4157 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4158 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4160 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4161 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4163 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4164 be meaningful with "accept".
4166 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4167 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4169 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4170 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4171 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4173 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4174 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4175 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4176 there is data to show.
4177 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4179 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4180 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4181 as well as the number of messages.
4183 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4184 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4185 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4187 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4188 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4189 have a flag are now skipped.
4191 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4192 Added the -emptyok flag.
4194 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4195 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4197 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4198 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4199 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4201 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4204 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4205 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4207 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4209 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4210 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4212 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4214 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4215 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4216 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4217 contravention of the specifications.
4219 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4220 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4221 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4223 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4224 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4225 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4227 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4229 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4230 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4231 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4232 some point in the past.
4234 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4235 transport during callout processing was broken.
4237 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4238 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4240 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4241 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4243 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4244 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4246 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4252 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4253 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4255 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4256 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4257 there is data to show.
4258 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4260 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4261 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4263 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4264 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4266 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4267 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4269 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4270 submissions from trusted users.
4272 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4273 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4275 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4276 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4277 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4278 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4279 there is now a framework to start from.
4281 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4282 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4283 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4285 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4287 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4289 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4291 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4292 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4293 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4295 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4298 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4299 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4300 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4302 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4303 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4304 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4307 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4308 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4309 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4310 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4311 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4313 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4314 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4316 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4318 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4319 operations in malware.c.
4321 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4324 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4325 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4326 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4329 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4330 statements to "add_header".
4332 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4333 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4335 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4336 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4339 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4343 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4344 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4345 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4348 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4349 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4351 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4352 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4354 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4355 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4356 any possible encoding problems.
4358 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4359 but not after initializing Perl.
4361 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4362 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4363 apparently, which is not desirable.
4365 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4368 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4371 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4373 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4374 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4375 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4376 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4378 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4379 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4380 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4382 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4383 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4384 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4387 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4388 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4389 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4390 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4391 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4397 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4398 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4400 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4403 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4404 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4405 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4406 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4407 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4408 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4409 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4410 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4413 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4415 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4416 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4417 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4419 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4420 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4421 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4424 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4425 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4427 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4428 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4429 option (which defaults to 0600).
4431 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4433 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4434 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4435 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4436 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4437 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4438 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4439 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4441 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4447 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4448 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4449 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4450 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4451 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4452 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4455 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4456 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4458 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4460 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4461 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4462 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4463 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4464 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4467 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4468 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4470 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4471 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4472 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4473 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4474 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4476 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4477 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4478 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4479 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4481 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4482 be the same on different OS.
4484 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4487 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4488 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4490 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4493 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4494 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4495 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4496 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4497 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4498 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4501 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4502 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4503 when Exim was called.
4505 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4506 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4508 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4509 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4510 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4511 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4513 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4514 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4515 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4516 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4519 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4520 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4521 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4523 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4524 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4525 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4527 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4530 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4531 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4532 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4533 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4534 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4535 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4536 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4537 values from the SRV records were lost.
4539 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4540 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4541 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4543 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4544 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4545 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4547 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4548 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4549 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4550 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4551 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4552 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4553 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4554 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4555 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4556 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4558 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4559 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4560 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4562 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4563 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4565 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4566 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4567 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4568 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4571 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4572 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4573 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4575 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4576 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4577 PH/23 above applies.
4579 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4580 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4581 (for which there is an explicit test).
4583 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4585 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4586 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4587 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4588 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4589 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4591 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4592 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4593 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4594 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4596 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4597 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4598 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4600 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4602 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4604 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4605 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4606 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4608 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4609 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4610 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4611 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4612 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4614 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4615 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4616 the message gets confusing).
4618 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4619 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4620 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4621 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4623 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4624 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4625 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4626 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4629 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4630 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4631 the different processes.
4633 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4635 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4637 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4638 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4640 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4641 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4643 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4644 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4645 messages matching specified criteria.
4647 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4649 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4650 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4652 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4653 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4654 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4655 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4656 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4657 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4658 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4659 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4660 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4661 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4663 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4664 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4665 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4667 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4669 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4670 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4671 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4672 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4673 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4674 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4675 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4678 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4679 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4681 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4683 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4685 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4687 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4688 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4689 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4690 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4691 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4692 size of the count of files.
4694 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4696 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4699 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4700 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4701 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4702 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4704 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4705 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4706 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4708 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4709 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4710 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4711 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4712 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4714 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4715 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4717 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4718 will now be deprecated.
4720 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4722 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4723 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4724 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4726 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4727 with very large, slow to parse queues
4729 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4731 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4733 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4734 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4735 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4738 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4739 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4740 Sieve code now uses this.
4742 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4743 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4745 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4746 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4748 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4750 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4751 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4752 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4753 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4754 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4756 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4757 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4758 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4759 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4761 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4763 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4765 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4766 is preferred over IPv4.
4768 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4769 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4770 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4771 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4772 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4773 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4774 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4776 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4777 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4778 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4780 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4782 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4783 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4784 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4785 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4786 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4787 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4788 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4789 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4790 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4791 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4792 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4794 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4795 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4796 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4802 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4804 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4805 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4807 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4808 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4809 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4811 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4813 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4816 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4819 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4820 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4821 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4824 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4825 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4827 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4828 inside the third argument.
4830 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4831 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4834 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4835 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4837 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4838 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4840 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4842 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4843 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4846 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4848 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4849 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4850 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4851 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4852 identical. For example:
4854 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4856 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4857 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4858 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4860 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4861 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4862 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4863 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4865 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4866 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4867 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4870 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4872 o fixes some comments
4873 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4874 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4875 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4876 and documents the missing references header update
4880 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4881 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4884 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4885 Electronic Mail") by including:
4887 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4889 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4890 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4891 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4892 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4893 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4895 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4897 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4899 The auto-replied keyword:
4901 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4902 message by an automatic process,
4904 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4906 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4907 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4909 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4910 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4913 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4914 to the default Received: header definition.
4916 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4918 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4919 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4920 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4922 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4923 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4924 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4926 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4927 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4928 and treats the condition as false.
4930 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4932 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4933 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4934 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4935 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4936 not changing the active code.
4938 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4939 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4941 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4942 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4944 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4947 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4948 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4949 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4950 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4951 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4952 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4953 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4954 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4955 the text comparison.
4957 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4958 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4959 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4960 The same fix has been applied.
4966 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4967 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4970 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4971 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4973 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4975 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4976 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4977 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4978 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4979 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4981 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4982 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4983 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4984 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4987 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4995 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4996 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4998 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5000 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5002 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5003 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5004 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5006 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5007 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5008 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5010 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5011 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5014 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5015 ${stat: expansion item.
5017 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5018 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5020 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5021 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5024 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5026 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5029 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5030 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5032 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5034 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5035 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5036 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5037 the end of the subprocess.
5039 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5040 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5041 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5042 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5043 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5045 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5047 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5049 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5050 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5052 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5054 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5056 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5057 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5060 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5062 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5063 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5064 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5066 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5067 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5069 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5070 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5072 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5073 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5075 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5076 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5078 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5079 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5080 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5081 contributed by a Radius user.
5083 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5084 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5086 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5087 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5089 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5092 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5093 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5096 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5097 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5098 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5099 header lines when this was not necessary.
5101 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5103 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5104 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5105 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5108 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5111 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5112 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5113 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5114 return code was incorrect.
5116 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5118 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5120 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5122 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5124 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5125 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5126 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5127 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5128 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5131 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5133 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5134 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5135 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5136 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5137 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5138 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5139 which is clearly wrong.
5141 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5143 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5144 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5145 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5148 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5149 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5151 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5153 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5154 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5156 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5157 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5159 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5160 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5162 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5163 recipients, not senders.
5165 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5166 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5168 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5170 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5172 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5173 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5174 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5175 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5177 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5179 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5180 clock is set back in time.
5182 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5183 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5185 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5186 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5188 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5189 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5192 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5193 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5196 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5199 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5201 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5202 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5203 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5205 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5206 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5207 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5208 helo verification defer as a failure.
5210 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5211 actual error message.
5217 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5219 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5220 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5221 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5222 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5224 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5226 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5227 can still be requested.
5229 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5230 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5231 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5232 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5234 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5235 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5236 circumstances, but probably never did.
5238 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5239 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5240 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5243 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5245 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5246 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5248 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5250 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5252 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5253 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5254 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5255 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5256 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5257 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5259 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5260 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5261 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5262 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5263 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5264 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5266 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5267 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5269 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5270 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5272 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5273 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5275 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5277 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5279 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5281 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5283 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5285 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5287 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5289 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5290 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5291 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5293 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5294 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5295 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5296 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5298 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5299 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5300 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5302 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5303 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5304 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5305 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5307 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5308 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5311 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5312 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5313 should work with maildirs and everything.
5315 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5316 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5318 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5321 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5322 function for BDB 4.3.
5324 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5326 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5327 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5330 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5331 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5332 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5333 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5334 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5335 formatting function string_vformat().
5337 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5338 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5339 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5340 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5341 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5342 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5343 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5344 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5346 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5347 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5350 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5351 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5353 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5354 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5355 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5356 test. It is now used for both.
5358 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5359 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5360 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5361 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5362 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5363 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5365 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5366 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5367 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5370 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5371 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5372 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5374 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5375 experimental DomainKeys support:
5377 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5378 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5379 the control was given.
5381 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5383 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5385 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5387 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5388 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5389 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5392 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5393 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5394 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5395 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5396 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5397 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5400 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5401 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5402 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5403 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5404 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5405 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5407 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5408 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5409 do -d+all out of habit.
5411 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5412 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5415 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5416 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5417 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5418 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5419 record types that Exim uses.
5421 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5422 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5423 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5424 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5425 non-existent file that was broken.
5427 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5428 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5430 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5431 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5432 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5434 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5436 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5437 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5438 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5439 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5440 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5443 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5444 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5445 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5446 at a slight CPU cost.
5448 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5449 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5451 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5454 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5456 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5457 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5463 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5464 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5466 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5468 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5470 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5471 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5473 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5474 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5475 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5476 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5477 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5478 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5481 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5482 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5483 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5484 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5487 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5488 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5489 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5490 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5491 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5492 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5493 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5496 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5497 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5499 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5500 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5501 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5502 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5503 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5504 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5506 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5507 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5508 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5509 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5511 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5514 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5515 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5517 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5518 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5519 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5520 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5523 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5525 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5526 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5528 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5529 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5530 to what was transported.)
5532 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5534 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5535 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5536 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5537 spamd_address settings.
5539 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5540 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5541 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5542 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5543 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5545 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5547 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5548 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5549 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5550 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5551 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5553 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5554 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5556 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5557 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5558 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5559 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5560 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5561 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5562 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5565 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5566 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5567 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5568 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5569 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5570 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5571 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5574 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5576 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5577 driver and ACL definitions.
5579 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5580 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5582 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5583 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5584 understands it better than I do:
5586 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5587 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5589 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5590 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5591 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5592 => three warnings about OTP not working
5593 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5595 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5596 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5597 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5598 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5600 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5601 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5603 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5604 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5605 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5607 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5608 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5611 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5612 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5615 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5616 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5617 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5619 warn !verify = sender
5620 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5622 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5623 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5625 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5627 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5628 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5630 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5631 nomenclature these days.)
5633 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5634 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5636 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5637 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5638 . First host does not offer TLS;
5639 . First host accepts first address;
5640 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5641 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5642 . Second host accepts second address.
5643 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5644 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5647 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5648 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5649 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5650 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5651 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5653 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5654 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5656 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5657 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5659 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5660 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5661 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5663 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5664 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5667 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5669 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5670 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5671 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5672 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5673 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5674 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5675 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5677 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5678 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5679 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5680 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5681 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5683 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5684 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5687 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5688 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5689 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5690 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5691 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5692 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5694 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5696 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5697 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5698 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5699 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5700 printable escape sequences.
5702 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5703 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5706 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5707 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5710 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5711 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5712 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5713 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5714 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5716 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5717 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5718 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5720 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5722 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5723 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5726 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5727 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5728 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5729 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5730 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5731 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5732 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5733 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5734 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5737 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5738 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5739 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5740 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5744 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5745 ----------------------------------------
5747 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5748 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5749 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5750 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5751 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5752 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5755 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5756 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5757 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5758 historical information.
5764 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5766 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5767 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5769 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5770 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5773 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5774 filter fails to execute.
5776 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5777 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5778 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5779 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5780 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5782 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5784 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5785 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5786 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5787 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5789 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5790 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5791 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5792 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5793 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5795 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5797 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5799 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5800 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5801 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5802 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5804 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5805 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5806 sender verification.
5808 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5809 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5811 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5813 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5816 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5817 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5819 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5820 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5822 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5823 information about exactly what failed.
5825 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5827 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5828 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5829 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5831 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5832 It is now set to "smtps".
5834 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5835 ignore_target_hosts.
5837 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5838 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5839 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5840 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5843 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5844 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5845 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5847 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5848 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5849 wake it up if nothing else does.
5851 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5852 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5853 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5856 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5857 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5859 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5861 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5862 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5863 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5864 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5865 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5866 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5867 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5868 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5870 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5871 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5872 than one IP address.
5874 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5875 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5876 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5877 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5879 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5880 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5881 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5882 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5883 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5886 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5887 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5888 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5889 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5891 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5892 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5895 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5896 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5897 $sender_host_address.
5899 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5900 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5901 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5902 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5903 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5906 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5908 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5909 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5911 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5912 just the host names, not the priorities.
5914 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5915 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5916 controlled by a keyword.
5918 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5919 multiple records are returned.
5921 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5922 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5925 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5927 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5928 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5930 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5931 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5932 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5934 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5936 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5938 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5940 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5941 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5942 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5943 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5944 because the tests only now provoked it.
5946 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5947 (this can affect the format of dates).
5949 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5950 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5951 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5952 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5954 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5956 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5957 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5958 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5959 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5961 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5962 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5963 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5965 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5968 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5969 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5970 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5971 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5972 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5973 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5976 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5977 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5978 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5981 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5982 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5983 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5985 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5986 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5987 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5988 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5989 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5990 so I produce this patch..."
5992 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5993 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5996 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5997 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5998 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5999 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6002 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6004 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6005 long debug lines gets shown.
6007 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6008 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6010 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6012 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6013 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6014 of $primary_hostname.
6016 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6017 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6018 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6019 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6020 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6021 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6022 by change 4.50/55 above.
6024 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6025 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6026 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6027 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6028 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6029 running as the user.
6032 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6033 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6034 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6037 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6038 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6040 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6041 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6042 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6043 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6044 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6046 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6047 This has been fixed.
6049 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6050 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6051 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6052 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6055 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6057 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6058 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6059 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6060 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6062 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6063 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6065 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6066 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6067 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6069 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6070 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6071 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6074 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6075 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6076 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6078 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6079 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6080 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6081 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6083 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6084 during host lookups.
6086 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6087 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6089 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6091 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6092 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6093 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6094 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6095 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6098 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6099 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6101 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6102 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6103 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6105 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6107 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6108 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6109 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6110 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6111 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6112 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6115 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6116 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6117 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6118 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6119 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6121 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6124 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6126 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6127 "vacation" handling.
6129 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6130 OS variants using glibc.
6132 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6135 ----------------------------------------------------
6136 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6137 ----------------------------------------------------
6143 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6144 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6147 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6148 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6151 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6152 filter fails to execute.
6154 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6155 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6156 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6157 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6158 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6160 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6161 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6162 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6163 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6165 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6166 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6167 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6168 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6169 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6171 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6173 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6174 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6175 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6176 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6178 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6179 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6180 sender verification.
6182 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6183 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6185 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6186 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6188 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6189 ignore_target_hosts.
6191 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6192 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6193 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6194 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6197 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6198 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6199 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6201 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6202 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6203 wake it up if nothing else does.
6205 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6206 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6207 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6210 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6211 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6213 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6215 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6216 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6219 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6220 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6223 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6224 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6225 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6226 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6227 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6230 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6231 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6234 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6235 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6236 $sender_host_address.
6238 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6240 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6241 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6242 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6244 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6247 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6248 (this can affect the format of dates).
6250 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6251 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6252 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6253 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6255 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6256 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6257 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6259 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6260 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6261 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6262 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6264 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6265 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6266 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6268 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6271 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6272 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6273 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6274 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6275 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6276 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6279 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6280 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6281 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6282 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6285 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6286 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6287 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6288 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6289 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6290 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6291 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6293 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6294 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6295 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6296 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6297 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6298 running as the user.
6301 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6302 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6303 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6306 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6307 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6308 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6309 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6310 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6312 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6313 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6314 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6315 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6318 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6319 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6320 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6321 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6322 because the tests only now provoked it.
6328 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6329 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6330 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6331 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6332 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6333 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6334 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6336 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6337 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6340 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6342 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6344 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6345 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6348 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6349 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6350 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6351 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6352 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6354 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6355 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6357 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6359 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6361 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6364 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6365 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6367 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6368 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6369 affecting debugging statements).
6371 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6373 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6374 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6375 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6376 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6377 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6378 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6379 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6380 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6381 after the received time, and all would be well.
6383 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6384 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6385 condition in an expansion string.
6387 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6389 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6390 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6391 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6392 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6393 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6394 job under whatever limits there are.
6396 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6398 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6401 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6402 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6403 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6404 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6407 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6408 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6409 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6410 binary data in such strings.
6412 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6414 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6415 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6416 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6417 failure, which is pointless.
6419 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6421 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6423 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6424 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6425 Sender: header lines.
6427 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6428 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6429 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6431 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6432 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6433 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6434 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6435 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6438 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6439 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6440 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6441 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6442 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6444 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6445 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6446 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6449 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6450 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6452 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6453 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6455 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6457 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6459 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6461 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6464 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6466 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6468 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6469 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6470 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6471 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6473 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6474 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6480 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6481 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6482 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6484 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6485 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6486 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6487 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6488 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6489 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6491 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6492 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6493 verification failure".
6495 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6496 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6497 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6498 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6500 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6501 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6502 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6503 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6504 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6505 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6506 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6507 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6508 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6509 treated as a timeout.
6511 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6512 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6513 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6514 not set for Exim filters).
6516 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6517 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6518 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6520 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6522 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6523 try to make them clearer.
6525 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6526 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6528 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6530 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6532 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6533 only the Cygwin environment.
6535 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6536 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6537 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6538 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6539 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6541 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6542 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6543 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6544 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6545 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6546 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6547 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6549 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6550 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6552 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6554 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6555 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6556 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6558 To: susanne@some.where
6560 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6561 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6562 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6563 of addresses in From: header lines).
6565 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6566 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6567 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6569 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6570 treated as non-personal.
6572 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6573 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6575 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6577 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6579 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6580 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6581 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6583 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6584 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6586 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6587 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6588 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6589 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6590 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6591 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6593 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6594 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6595 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6596 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6597 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6598 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6599 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6600 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6602 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6604 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6605 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6607 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6608 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6609 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6611 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6612 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6614 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6615 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6616 rather than long int.
6618 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6620 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6626 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6627 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6628 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6629 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6630 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6631 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6637 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6638 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6640 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6641 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6642 socklen_t is defined.
6644 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6647 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6650 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6651 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6652 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6653 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6654 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6656 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6657 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6658 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6659 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6661 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6662 of flapping under certain conditions.
6664 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6665 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6666 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6668 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6670 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6672 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6673 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6674 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6675 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6677 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6678 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6679 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6680 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6681 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6682 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6683 preserved with the message after it was received.
6685 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6686 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6687 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6688 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6689 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6690 test suite worked just fine.
6692 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6693 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6694 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6696 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6697 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6700 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6701 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6702 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6703 does not fully solve it.
6705 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6706 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6707 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6708 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6709 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6711 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6712 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6713 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6715 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6716 string, for example:
6718 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6720 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6721 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6722 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6723 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6724 the routers could not see them.
6726 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6727 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6729 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6730 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6733 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6734 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6735 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6736 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6737 that needed quoting.
6739 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6740 was not being matched caselessly.
6742 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6745 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6746 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6747 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6748 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6749 when use_sender is false.
6751 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6753 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6755 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6757 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6758 the configuration file.
6760 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6761 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6763 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6765 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6766 bytes in the message body.
6768 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6769 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6772 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6774 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6776 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6777 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6778 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6779 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6786 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6787 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6789 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6790 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6791 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6792 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6793 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6795 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6796 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6798 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6799 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6800 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6802 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6803 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6804 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6806 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6809 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6810 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6811 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6812 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6813 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6814 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6815 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6821 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6822 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6823 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6824 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6825 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6826 default (and expected) setting.
6828 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6829 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6830 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6831 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6833 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6834 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6836 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6839 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6840 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6841 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6842 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6843 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6844 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6846 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6847 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6848 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6850 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6851 part (NOT match_host).
6853 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6855 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6856 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6857 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6858 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6859 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6860 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6861 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6862 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6863 the same named file.
6865 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6866 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6869 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6870 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6871 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6872 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6875 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6876 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6877 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6879 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6881 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6883 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6885 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6886 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6888 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6889 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6890 before starting the TLS session.
6892 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6894 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6895 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6897 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6898 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6899 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6900 colon in the middle).
6906 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6907 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6908 multiple configurations are in use.
6910 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6911 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6912 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6913 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6914 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6915 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6917 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6918 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6920 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6921 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6922 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6924 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6925 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6928 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6929 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6931 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6933 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6934 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6936 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6944 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6945 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6946 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6947 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6948 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6950 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6953 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6954 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6955 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6956 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6957 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6958 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6960 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6961 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6962 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6963 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6964 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6965 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6966 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6969 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6970 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6971 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6972 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6973 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6975 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6977 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6978 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6979 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6981 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6983 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6984 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6985 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6988 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6989 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6991 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6992 Three changes have been made:
6994 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6995 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6996 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6997 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6998 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7000 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7003 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7004 the modified behaviour.
7010 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7013 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7014 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7016 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7017 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7018 try to track down a specific problem.
7020 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7021 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7022 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7024 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7027 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7028 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7029 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7030 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7031 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7032 some earlier ones do not.
7034 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7036 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7037 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7038 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7039 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7040 address literals are enabled, of course).
7042 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7044 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7045 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7046 by a command such as
7050 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7052 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7054 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7055 remained set. It is now erased.
7057 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7058 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7060 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7061 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7062 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7063 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7064 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7065 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7066 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7067 appropriate error code.
7069 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7070 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7071 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7072 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7073 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7074 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7076 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7077 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7078 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7080 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7081 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7082 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7083 terminate the header.
7085 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7086 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7087 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7089 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7090 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7091 (4.30/29). In particular:
7093 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7096 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7097 to write a maildirsize file.
7099 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7100 the transport, the new value overrides.
7102 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7105 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7106 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7107 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7110 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7111 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7112 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7115 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7116 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7117 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7119 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7120 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7123 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7124 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7125 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7127 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7129 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7131 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7133 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7134 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7137 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7138 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7139 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7140 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7141 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7142 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7143 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7146 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7147 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7148 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7149 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7150 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7153 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7154 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7155 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7156 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7157 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7158 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7159 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7160 cached value only when the same options are set.
7162 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7164 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7165 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7166 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7167 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7168 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7170 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7171 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7172 it is clearly obsolete.
7174 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7177 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7178 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7179 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7182 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7183 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7184 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7185 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7186 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7188 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7189 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7190 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7191 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7193 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7195 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7197 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7198 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7201 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7202 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7203 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7204 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7205 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7206 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7209 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7210 with the -f command-line option.
7212 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7213 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7214 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7215 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7216 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7217 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7219 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7220 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7223 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7224 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7225 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7226 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7227 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7228 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7229 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7230 buffer is too small.
7232 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7233 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7235 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7236 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7237 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7238 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7239 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7240 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7241 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7242 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7243 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7245 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7246 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7247 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7249 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7250 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7253 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7254 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7255 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7256 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7257 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7259 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7260 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7261 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7262 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7265 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7267 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7269 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7270 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7272 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7273 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7274 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7276 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7277 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7278 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7279 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7280 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7282 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7283 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7284 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7285 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7286 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7287 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7288 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7290 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7291 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7292 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7293 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7294 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7295 the test of how many are available.
7297 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7298 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7299 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7300 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7301 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7302 new message is started.
7304 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7305 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7307 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7308 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7310 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7311 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7312 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7315 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7316 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7317 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7318 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7319 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7320 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7321 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7323 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7324 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7325 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7326 interpreted as octal.
7328 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7331 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7332 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7333 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7334 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7335 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7336 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7338 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7339 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7340 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7341 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7343 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7344 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7345 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7346 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7348 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7349 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7352 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7353 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7355 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7357 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7358 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7359 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7360 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7362 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7363 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7364 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7365 supplied", which is not helpful.
7367 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7368 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7369 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7371 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7372 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7373 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7374 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7375 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7376 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7377 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7378 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7380 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7381 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7382 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7383 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7384 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7386 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7387 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7388 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7389 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7390 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7391 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7393 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7394 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7395 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7397 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7399 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7400 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7401 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7404 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7406 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7407 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7408 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7409 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7410 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7411 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7412 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7413 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7415 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7416 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7417 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7418 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7419 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7421 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7424 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7425 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7426 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7427 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7428 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7429 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7430 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7431 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7432 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7438 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7439 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7440 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7442 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7445 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7446 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7447 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7449 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7450 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7451 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7452 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7453 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7454 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7456 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7457 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7458 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7459 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7460 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7461 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7462 the Exim test suite.
7464 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7465 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7466 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7467 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7469 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7470 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7471 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7472 specify it in this variable.
7474 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7475 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7476 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7477 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7479 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7480 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7481 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7482 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7484 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7485 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7486 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7487 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7488 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7490 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7492 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7495 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7496 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7497 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7498 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7499 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7501 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7502 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7504 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7505 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7506 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7507 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7508 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7510 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7511 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7513 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7514 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7515 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7517 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7518 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7520 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7521 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7523 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7524 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7525 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7527 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7528 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7530 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7531 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7532 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7533 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7535 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7537 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7538 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7539 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7540 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7542 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7544 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7545 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7547 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7549 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7550 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7551 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7552 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7553 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7554 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7556 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7558 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7559 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7562 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7564 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7565 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7567 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7568 550 Sender verify failed
7570 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7571 the final line of the response.
7573 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7574 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7575 all other user lookups.
7577 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7580 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7581 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7582 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7583 result into an int without checking.
7585 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7586 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7587 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7589 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7590 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7591 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7592 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7594 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7597 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7598 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7600 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7601 to the empty sender.
7603 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7604 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7605 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7606 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7607 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7608 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7609 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7612 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7613 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7614 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7615 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7618 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7619 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7621 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7624 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7625 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7627 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7629 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7630 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7633 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7634 as soon as it is encountered.
7636 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7638 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7641 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7642 recognizes a tab character.
7644 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7645 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7646 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7647 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7649 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7651 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7654 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7656 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7658 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7659 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7662 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7663 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7664 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7665 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7666 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7668 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7669 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7671 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7672 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7673 list (.included file names were always shown).
7675 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7676 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7677 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7680 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7681 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7683 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7685 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7687 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7689 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7690 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7691 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7692 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7693 failures to open the logs.
7695 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7696 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7697 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7698 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7699 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7700 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7701 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7707 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7708 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7709 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7712 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7713 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7714 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7716 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7717 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7718 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7720 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7721 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7722 causing some misleading effects.
7724 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7725 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7726 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7728 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7729 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7730 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7731 queue-runner function directly.
7737 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7740 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7741 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7742 was always written to the default place.
7744 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7745 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7746 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7748 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7750 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7752 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7753 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7754 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7756 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7757 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7760 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7761 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7762 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7764 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7765 command line option is disabled.
7767 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7768 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7770 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7772 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7774 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7775 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7777 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7779 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7780 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7781 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7782 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7783 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7784 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7786 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7787 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7790 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7791 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7793 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7794 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7796 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7797 received was valid base64.
7799 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7800 name of the variable that was being set.
7802 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7804 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7805 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7806 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7807 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7808 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7809 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7811 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7813 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7814 nor realm was specified.
7816 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7817 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7818 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7819 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7821 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7822 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7823 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7825 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7826 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7827 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7829 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7830 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7831 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7832 some systems use these upper case variants.
7834 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7835 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7836 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7837 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7839 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7841 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7842 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7844 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7845 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7848 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7850 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7851 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7852 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7853 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7855 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7858 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7859 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7860 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7862 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7863 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7865 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7866 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7867 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7868 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7870 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7871 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7872 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7874 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7876 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7877 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7878 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7879 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7882 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7883 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7884 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7886 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7888 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7889 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7891 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7892 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7894 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7895 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7896 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7897 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7898 when emails are that large.
7905 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7906 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7908 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7909 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7910 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7912 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7913 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7914 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7916 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7917 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7918 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7919 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7920 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7922 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7923 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7924 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7925 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7926 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7929 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7930 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7931 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7932 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7933 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7934 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7935 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7936 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7937 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7938 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7939 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7940 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7941 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7942 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7944 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7945 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7948 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7949 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7950 error should be diagnosed.
7952 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7953 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7954 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7955 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7956 appeared instead of "NULL".
7958 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7959 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7960 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7961 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7962 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7963 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7966 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7967 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7968 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7974 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7975 or receiver verification errors.
7977 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7980 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7981 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7982 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7983 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7985 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7986 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7987 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7988 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7989 shouldn't happen again.
7991 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7992 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7993 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7995 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7996 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7998 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8000 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8001 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8003 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8004 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8007 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8008 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8009 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8011 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8012 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8013 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8014 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8016 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8017 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8018 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8019 to define what should happen).
8021 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8022 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8023 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8025 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8027 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8029 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8030 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8032 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8033 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8034 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8035 structure in all cases.
8037 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8038 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8039 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8040 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8042 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8043 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8046 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8047 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8049 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8050 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8052 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8053 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8054 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8056 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8057 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8058 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8060 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8061 the book and for uniformity.
8063 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8065 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8066 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8067 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8068 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8069 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8070 non-existent command as the problem.
8072 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8073 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8074 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8076 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8078 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8079 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8080 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8082 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8083 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8084 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8085 timestamps using strftime().
8087 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8088 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8090 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8091 transport-time rewrites.
8093 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8094 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8095 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8096 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8098 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8099 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8101 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8102 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8103 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8104 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8107 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8108 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8109 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8110 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8111 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8112 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8113 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8115 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8116 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8117 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8118 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8119 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8121 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8122 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8123 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8124 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8125 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8126 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8127 remaining text gets split now.
8129 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8130 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8131 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8132 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8134 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8135 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8136 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8137 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8140 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8141 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8142 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8143 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8144 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8145 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8146 passed through if needed.
8148 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8149 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8150 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8151 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8152 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8153 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8155 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8156 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8157 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8158 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8159 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8161 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8162 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8163 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8164 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8165 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8167 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8168 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8171 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8172 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8173 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8174 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8175 mayhem of various kinds.
8177 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8178 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8179 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8180 the right test for positive values.
8182 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8183 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8184 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8185 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8186 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8187 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8188 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8189 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8190 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8191 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8194 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8197 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8198 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8201 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8202 the existing equality matching.
8204 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8205 dealing with inode numbers.
8207 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8208 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8209 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8211 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8212 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8213 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8214 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8217 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8218 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8219 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8220 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8221 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8222 relay addresses has also been removed.
8224 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8226 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8227 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8228 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8230 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8231 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8232 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8233 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8234 processing applies to CR:
8236 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8237 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8239 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8240 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8241 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8242 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8244 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8245 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8246 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8248 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8249 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8250 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8251 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8252 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8253 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8256 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8259 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8260 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8261 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8262 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8265 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8267 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8269 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8271 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8272 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8273 not considered personal.
8275 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8277 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8279 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8281 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8282 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8283 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8284 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8285 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8286 header lines, and spool format errors.
8288 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8289 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8290 for more flexibility.
8292 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8293 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8294 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8296 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8299 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8300 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8301 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8302 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8303 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8304 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8305 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8306 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8307 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8309 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8310 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8311 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8312 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8313 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8314 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8315 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8317 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8318 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8319 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8321 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8322 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8323 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8324 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8325 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8326 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8327 instead of killing the process with assert().
8329 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8330 than Unicode encoding.
8332 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8333 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8334 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8335 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8337 77. Added process_log_path.
8339 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8340 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8342 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8343 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8345 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8346 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8347 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8349 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8350 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8351 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8352 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8353 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8356 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8357 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8360 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8361 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8362 they will be used during message reception.
8368 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.