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.
93 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
94 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
95 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
98 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
99 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
101 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
102 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
103 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
104 not be modified by local-scan code.
106 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
107 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
109 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
110 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
113 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
114 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
116 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
117 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
120 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
121 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
122 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
124 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
125 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
126 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
128 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
129 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
130 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
131 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
132 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
133 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
134 Assorted crashes happen.
136 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
137 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
138 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
141 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
142 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
143 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
144 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
146 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
147 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
148 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
151 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
153 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
154 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
157 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
158 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
159 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
161 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
162 result of expansion operators and items.
164 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
165 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
166 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
167 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
169 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
171 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
172 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
173 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
174 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
177 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
178 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
180 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
181 Previously only the domain part was returned.
183 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
184 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
185 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
186 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
188 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
189 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
190 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
191 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
193 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
194 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
195 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
196 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
197 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
200 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
201 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
202 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
204 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
205 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
206 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
207 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
209 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
210 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
211 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
212 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
214 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
215 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
216 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
217 Previously only the server IP was used.
219 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
220 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
221 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
222 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
224 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
225 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
226 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
228 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
229 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
230 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
233 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
234 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
236 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
237 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
243 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
244 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
245 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
247 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
248 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
249 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
250 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
252 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
253 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
254 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
255 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
256 so could be handling tainted values.
258 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
259 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
260 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
262 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
263 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
264 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
267 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
268 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
269 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
270 to align better with RFC 6125.
272 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
273 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
274 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
275 by adding a release action in that path.
277 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
278 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
279 dynamically-created buffers.
281 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
282 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
283 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
284 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
286 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
287 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
288 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
289 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
291 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
292 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
293 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
295 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
296 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
297 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
298 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
300 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
301 excluded, not matching the documentation.
303 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
304 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
306 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
307 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
308 this was a coding error.
310 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
311 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
312 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
313 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
314 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
315 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
316 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
318 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
319 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
320 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
321 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
323 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
324 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
325 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
326 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
327 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
329 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
330 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
333 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
334 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
335 domain-parking registrar.
337 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
338 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
339 after removing the newline.
341 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
342 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
343 option set, which was previously used.
345 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
348 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
349 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
350 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
351 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
353 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
354 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
355 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
356 exim.dev.20160529.3).
358 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
359 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
360 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
362 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
363 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
364 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
367 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
368 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
369 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
371 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
372 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
373 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
374 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
377 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
378 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
379 there, handle PRX and TFO.
381 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
382 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
383 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
384 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
385 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
387 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
388 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
389 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
390 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
393 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
394 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
396 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
399 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
400 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
401 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
402 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
403 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
405 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
407 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
408 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
409 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
410 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
411 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
412 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
414 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
415 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
417 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
418 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
419 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
421 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
422 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
425 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
426 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
427 of a new variable: $auth4.
429 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
430 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
431 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
432 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
433 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
435 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
436 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
437 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
438 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
440 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
441 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
442 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
444 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
445 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
446 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
447 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
450 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
451 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
452 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
455 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
456 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
457 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
458 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
460 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
461 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
463 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
464 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
465 looked as if if might be one.
467 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
468 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
469 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
470 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
471 messages can show the proxy information.
473 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
474 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
475 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
476 "queue_time_exclusive".
478 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
479 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
480 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
482 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
483 making it unusable in complex expressions.
485 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
486 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
489 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
491 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
493 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
495 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
496 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
497 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
498 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
500 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
501 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
503 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
504 better. Reported by Qualys.
506 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
507 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
510 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
512 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
515 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
517 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
518 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
519 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
520 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
522 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
523 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
525 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
526 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
527 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
528 mode until after various protocol state checks.
529 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
531 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
533 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
534 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
536 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
539 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
540 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
541 executed child processes (if any).
543 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
546 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
547 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
548 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
549 been reported on other platforms.
551 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
553 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
554 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
555 Not supported on Solaris 10.
557 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
558 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
559 since fakereject was originally introduced.
561 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
562 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
564 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
565 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
566 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
569 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
570 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
571 which only permit IP addresses.
577 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
578 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
579 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
581 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
583 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
584 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
587 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
588 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
589 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
591 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
593 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
595 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
596 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
597 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
599 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
600 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
601 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
603 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
604 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
606 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
607 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
610 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
611 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
612 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
613 should both provide the file and set the option.
614 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
616 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
617 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
619 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
620 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
621 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
622 Authentication-Results: header.
624 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
625 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
626 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
627 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
629 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
630 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
631 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
632 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
633 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
634 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
635 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
637 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
638 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
639 copies while it is still usable.
641 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
642 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
643 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
645 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
646 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
648 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
649 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
650 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
651 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
653 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
654 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
655 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
658 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
659 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
660 - the pipe transport command
661 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
662 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
664 - paths used by single-key lookups
665 Previously this was permitted.
667 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
668 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
669 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
670 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
672 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
673 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
674 support larger malloc requests.
676 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
677 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
678 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
679 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
681 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
682 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
683 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
684 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
687 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
688 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
689 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
690 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
691 data being length-specified.
693 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
694 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
695 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
696 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
698 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
699 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
700 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
701 not being properly tracked.
703 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
704 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
705 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
706 minute could be seen.
708 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
709 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
710 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
712 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
713 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
715 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
716 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
719 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
721 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
722 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
724 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
725 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
726 filesystem as sufficient validation.
728 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
729 argument is supplied.
731 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
732 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
733 access under Exim's current working directory.
735 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
736 Previously no event was raised.
738 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
739 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
740 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
743 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
744 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
745 the size of the signature hash.
747 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
748 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
750 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
751 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
752 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
753 dropped between messages.
755 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
756 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
757 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
758 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
760 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
761 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
762 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
763 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
764 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
765 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
766 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
767 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
768 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
770 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
771 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
772 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
774 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
775 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
782 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
783 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
785 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
786 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
789 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
792 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
794 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
796 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
797 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
799 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
800 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
801 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
802 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
803 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
804 suitably configured).
806 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
807 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
809 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
810 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
813 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
814 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
816 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
817 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
818 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
819 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
822 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
823 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
824 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
826 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
829 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
830 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
832 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
833 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
834 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
835 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
838 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
839 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
840 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
841 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
844 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
845 shared (NFS) environment.
847 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
848 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
851 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
852 on some platforms for bit 31.
854 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
855 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
856 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
857 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
858 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
859 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
860 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
861 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
863 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
865 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
866 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
868 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
869 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
872 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
873 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
876 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
877 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
878 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
881 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
882 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
883 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
885 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
886 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
887 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
888 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
889 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
891 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
894 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
895 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
896 be requested on all coneections.
898 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
899 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
901 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
903 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
904 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
905 one for these; the option was ignored.
907 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
908 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
909 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
910 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
912 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
913 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
914 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
917 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
918 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
919 error ignored was made.
921 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
923 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
924 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
925 values, to catch one form of exploit.
927 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
928 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
929 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
931 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
932 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
935 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
936 them in our smtp response.
938 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
939 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
940 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
941 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
942 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
944 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
945 link count into consideration.
947 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
948 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
950 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
951 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
952 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
955 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
957 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
959 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
961 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
962 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
963 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
964 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
966 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
968 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
969 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
972 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
973 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
974 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
976 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
977 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
978 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
980 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
981 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
982 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
983 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
984 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
985 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
986 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
987 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
989 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
990 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
991 resulted in an indefinite loop.
993 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
994 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
995 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
997 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
998 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1005 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1006 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1008 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1009 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1011 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1012 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1013 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1015 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1016 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1017 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1019 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1020 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1021 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1022 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1023 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1026 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1027 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1029 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1030 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1031 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1032 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1033 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1034 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1035 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1037 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1038 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1040 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1043 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1044 Previously this would segfault.
1046 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1049 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1050 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1051 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1052 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1053 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1054 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1056 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1058 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1059 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1060 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1061 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1063 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1065 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1066 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1067 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1068 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1070 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1072 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1074 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1075 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1076 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1078 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1079 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1080 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1082 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1084 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1085 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1086 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1087 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1089 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1090 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1091 promised '?' replacement.
1093 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1095 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1096 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1097 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1098 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1099 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1101 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1102 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1103 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1105 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1106 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1107 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1109 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1110 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1111 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1113 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1114 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1115 hope that is portable enough.
1117 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1118 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1119 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1120 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1122 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1123 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1124 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1126 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1127 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1128 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1129 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1131 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1132 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1134 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1135 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1136 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1137 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1139 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1140 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1141 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1143 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1144 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1145 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1146 the previous G, M, k.
1148 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1149 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1152 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1153 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1154 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1155 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1157 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1158 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1160 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1161 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1162 off past the nul-terimation.
1164 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1165 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1166 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1167 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1168 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1170 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1172 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1173 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1174 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1177 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1178 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1180 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1181 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1182 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1184 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1185 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1186 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1188 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1189 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1195 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1196 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1197 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1198 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1199 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1200 be defined in redis_servers.
1202 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1203 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1205 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1206 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1207 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1208 extant use locations.
1210 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1211 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1213 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1214 Previously only the last row was returned.
1216 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1217 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1218 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1219 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1222 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1223 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1224 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1225 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1226 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1227 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1228 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1229 Main pool for expansions.
1230 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1231 active in the testsuite.
1232 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1234 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1235 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1236 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1237 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1240 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1241 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1244 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1245 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1246 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1248 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1249 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1250 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1252 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1253 rows affected is given instead).
1255 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1256 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1258 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1259 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1260 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1261 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1262 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1264 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1265 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1266 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1268 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1269 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1270 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1271 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1274 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1275 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1276 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1279 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1281 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1282 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1284 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1285 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1286 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1288 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1289 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1290 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1293 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1294 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1296 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1297 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1298 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1300 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1301 for the build is renamed.
1303 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1304 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1305 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1307 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1308 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1309 result replacing the original.
1311 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1312 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1313 and the resources needed to be freed.
1315 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1317 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1320 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1321 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1322 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1323 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1325 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1326 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1328 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1329 newer versions of the scanner.
1331 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1332 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1333 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1334 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1335 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1336 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1337 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1339 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1340 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1341 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1342 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1343 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1344 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1345 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1346 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1347 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1348 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1350 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1351 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1353 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1355 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1356 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1358 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1359 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1361 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1362 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1363 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1365 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1366 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1367 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1368 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1370 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1371 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1374 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1375 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1377 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1378 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1379 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1380 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1381 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1383 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1384 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1387 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1388 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1390 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1393 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1394 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1395 "bare" representation.
1397 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1398 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1399 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1400 corrupted the output.
1406 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1407 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1408 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1409 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1411 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1412 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1414 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1415 This permits better logging.
1417 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1418 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1419 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1420 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1421 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1422 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1424 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1425 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1428 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1429 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1430 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1432 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1433 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1435 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1436 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1437 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1438 client, there is no benefit for these.
1439 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1440 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1441 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1444 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1445 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1447 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1448 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1449 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1451 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1452 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1454 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1455 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1456 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1457 signature and again for transmission.
1459 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1460 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1461 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1463 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1464 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1465 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1466 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1467 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1468 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1469 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1471 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1472 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1473 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1474 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1476 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1477 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1478 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1479 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1480 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1481 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1484 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1485 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1486 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1487 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1490 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1491 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1492 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1493 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1496 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1497 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1500 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1501 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1502 banner-time rejection.
1504 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1507 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1508 is the name of a transport.
1511 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1513 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1514 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1516 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1517 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1518 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1521 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1522 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1523 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1524 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1526 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1527 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1528 initial verify call returned a defer.
1530 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1531 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1533 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1534 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1536 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1537 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1539 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1540 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1542 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1543 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1546 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1547 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1549 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1550 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1551 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1553 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1554 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1555 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1556 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1558 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1559 and confused the parent.
1561 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1562 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1564 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1567 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1568 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1569 out-of-order delivery.
1571 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1572 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1573 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1576 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1577 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1580 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1581 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1582 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1584 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1585 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1586 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1587 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1588 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1589 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1591 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1592 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1593 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1595 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1596 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1597 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1599 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1600 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1601 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1602 though a different problem.
1608 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1609 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1611 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1613 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1614 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1616 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1617 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1619 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1620 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1621 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1622 before acknowledging the chunk.
1624 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1625 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1626 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1628 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1629 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1630 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1633 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1634 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1635 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1637 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1638 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1640 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1641 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1642 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1643 body hash calculated value.
1645 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1646 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1647 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1649 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1651 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1652 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1654 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1655 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1656 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1658 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1659 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1660 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1661 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1662 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1663 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1665 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1666 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1667 past that check, despite the cost.
1669 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1670 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1671 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1673 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1674 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1675 TLS library to consume.
1677 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1679 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1681 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1682 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1683 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1684 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1685 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1686 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1687 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1689 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1691 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1693 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1694 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1695 should be warning-free.
1697 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1699 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1700 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1702 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1703 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1704 general solution here.
1706 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1707 already-broken messages in the queue.
1709 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1711 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1717 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1718 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1720 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1721 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1722 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1724 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1725 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1726 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1727 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1728 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1729 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1730 if one fails this test.
1731 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1732 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1734 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1735 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1737 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1738 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1740 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1741 in rewrites and routers.
1743 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1744 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1746 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1747 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1749 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1751 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1754 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1755 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1756 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1757 connection after a verify cache hit.
1758 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1760 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1761 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1763 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1764 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1765 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1766 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1767 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1769 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1770 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1772 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1773 Previously they were not counted.
1775 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1776 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1777 that needed the lookup.
1779 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1780 distinguished as "(=".
1782 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1783 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1785 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1787 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1788 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1790 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1791 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1793 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1794 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1797 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1798 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1799 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1800 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1802 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1804 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1805 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1806 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1808 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1809 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1810 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1813 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1814 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1815 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1818 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1819 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1820 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1822 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1823 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1826 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1828 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1829 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1831 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1832 are not in the system include path.
1834 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1835 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1836 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1837 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1839 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1840 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1841 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1843 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1845 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1846 an incoming connection.
1848 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1851 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1852 fallback to "prime256v1".
1854 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1855 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1861 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1862 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1863 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1864 client dropping the TLS connection.
1866 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1867 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1869 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1870 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1871 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1872 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1875 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1876 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1877 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1878 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1879 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1880 check on the next write.
1882 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1883 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1884 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1885 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1886 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1888 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1889 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1891 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1892 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1893 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1895 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1896 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1897 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1898 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1900 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1901 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1903 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1904 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1906 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1907 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1908 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1911 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1913 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1915 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1917 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1918 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1920 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1921 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1923 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1925 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1926 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1928 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1930 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1931 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1933 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1935 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1936 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1937 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1938 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1939 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1940 they will retry in-clear.
1941 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1942 at installation time.
1944 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1945 with the $config_file variable.
1947 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1948 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1949 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1950 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1951 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1953 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1954 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1955 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1956 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1957 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1959 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1961 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1962 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1963 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1964 list order is no longer honoured.
1966 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1967 for DKIM processing.
1969 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1970 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1972 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1973 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1974 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1975 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1977 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1978 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1980 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1981 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1983 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1984 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1986 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1988 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1989 cached by the daemon.
1991 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1992 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1994 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1995 keys are given for lookup.
1997 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1998 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1999 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2000 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2002 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2003 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2004 server-side so match that on older versions.
2006 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2007 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2008 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2010 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2011 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2013 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2014 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2015 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2016 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2017 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2018 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2019 initial truncated version.
2021 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2023 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2025 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2026 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2028 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2030 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2032 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2033 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2036 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2037 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2040 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2041 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2043 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2044 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2047 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2048 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2049 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2051 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2052 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2053 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2054 extraction. Accept either.
2060 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2063 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2065 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2068 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2069 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2070 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2071 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2073 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2074 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2075 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2077 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2078 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2079 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2082 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2085 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2086 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2087 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2088 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2089 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2091 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2092 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2093 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2095 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2097 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2098 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2100 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2101 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2103 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2106 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2107 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2109 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2110 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2111 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2113 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2114 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2115 specify a port-range.
2117 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2118 timeout value per server.
2120 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2121 now have the list separator specified.
2123 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2126 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2129 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2131 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2132 rather than the verbs used.
2134 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2135 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2137 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2139 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2140 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2142 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2143 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2145 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2146 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2148 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2150 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2152 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2153 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2154 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2155 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2157 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2159 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2160 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2162 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2163 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2165 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2167 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2169 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2171 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2172 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2174 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2175 added for tls authenticator.
2177 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2183 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2184 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2185 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2186 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2187 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2188 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2189 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2191 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2192 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2193 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2194 function when detected.
2196 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2197 cause callback expansion.
2199 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2200 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2201 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2202 instead of bool when processing it.
2204 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2205 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2207 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2209 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2211 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2213 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2214 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2216 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2217 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2218 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2219 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2220 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2221 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2223 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2224 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2227 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2228 version 3.3.6 or later.
2230 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2231 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2232 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2233 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2234 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2235 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2238 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2239 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2241 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2242 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2243 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2246 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2247 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2248 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2250 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2251 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2253 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2254 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2257 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2259 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2260 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2262 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2263 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2266 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2268 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2271 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2272 output list separator was used.
2277 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2278 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2281 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2282 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2284 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2286 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2287 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2293 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2295 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2296 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2297 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2298 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2299 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2300 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2302 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2303 utilities have not been installed.
2305 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2306 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2308 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2309 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2311 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2312 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2313 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2314 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2316 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2318 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2319 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2321 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2324 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2326 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2327 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2328 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2330 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2331 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2332 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2333 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2334 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2335 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2337 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2339 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2340 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2342 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2345 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2347 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2349 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2350 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2352 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2353 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2355 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2357 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2359 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2360 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2362 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2363 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2364 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2366 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2367 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2368 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2371 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2373 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2374 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2377 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2378 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2381 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2382 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2384 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2385 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2387 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2389 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2390 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2391 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2393 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2394 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2396 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2397 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2400 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2401 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2402 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2404 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2406 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2407 Christian Aistleitner.
2409 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2411 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2412 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2414 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2415 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2417 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2418 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2420 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2421 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2423 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2424 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2426 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2427 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2428 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2430 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2432 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2433 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2436 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2438 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2439 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2446 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2448 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2449 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2451 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2454 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2455 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2458 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2460 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2461 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2462 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2463 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2464 using channel bindings instead).
2466 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2467 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2468 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2469 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2470 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2473 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2475 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2477 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2478 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2480 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2481 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2482 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2484 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2486 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2488 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2489 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2491 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2493 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2495 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2497 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2498 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2500 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2502 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2503 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2506 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2507 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2509 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2510 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2513 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2515 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2517 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2518 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2520 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2523 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2524 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2526 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2527 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2529 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2531 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2533 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2536 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2539 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2541 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2542 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2543 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2544 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2546 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2548 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2549 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2550 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2551 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2554 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2555 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2556 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2558 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2559 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2560 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2561 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2563 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2564 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2565 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2566 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2567 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2568 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2569 delivery, as in LMTP.
2571 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2572 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2574 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2576 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2580 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2581 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2582 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2583 username as equal to the username.
2585 This change corrects that bug.
2587 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2588 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2589 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2591 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2593 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2594 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2595 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2596 NULL dereference and crash.
2598 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2600 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2601 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2602 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2604 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2606 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2607 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2608 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2609 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2610 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2611 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2612 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2613 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2614 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2615 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2616 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2618 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2619 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2621 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2622 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2625 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2626 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2627 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2628 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2629 an empty string is now equivalent.
2631 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2632 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2633 not performing validation itself.
2635 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2636 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2638 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2641 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2643 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2644 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2645 other false fix of the same issue.
2646 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2649 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2650 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2652 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2653 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2654 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2656 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2657 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2658 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2660 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2662 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2664 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2665 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2667 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2670 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2671 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2672 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2673 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2674 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2676 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2677 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2679 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2680 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2683 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2684 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2685 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2686 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2688 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2690 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2691 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2692 from multiple comments on this bug.
2694 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2696 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2697 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2700 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2701 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2703 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2704 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2710 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2712 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2718 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2719 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2720 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2722 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2724 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2727 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2729 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2731 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2733 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2734 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2736 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2737 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2739 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2740 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2742 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2743 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2744 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2746 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2748 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2749 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2751 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2753 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2755 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2756 non-compliant senders.
2757 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2759 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2760 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2761 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2763 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2764 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2765 in spool file corruption.
2767 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2768 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2769 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2772 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2773 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2774 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2776 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2777 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2779 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2781 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2783 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2785 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2786 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2787 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2789 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2790 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2791 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2792 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2794 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2795 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2797 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2798 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2799 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2800 resolver implementation change.
2802 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2803 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2805 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2807 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2809 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2810 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2812 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2813 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2815 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2816 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2818 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2819 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2820 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2821 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2822 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2824 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2826 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2827 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2828 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2830 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2832 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2833 read-only, out of scope).
2834 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2836 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2837 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2838 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2839 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2841 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2843 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2844 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2845 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2846 real issues in debug logging.
2848 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2849 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2851 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2852 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2853 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2855 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2856 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2857 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2860 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2861 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2863 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2864 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2865 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2866 needs to override this, it can.
2868 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2869 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2870 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2872 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2873 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2874 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2875 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2877 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2883 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2884 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2886 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2888 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2891 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2892 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2894 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2895 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2896 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2898 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2899 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2900 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2901 not safe for signals.
2903 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2904 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2905 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2906 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2909 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2911 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2912 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2913 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2914 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2915 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2917 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2918 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2919 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2920 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2921 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2922 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2924 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2925 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2926 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2927 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2929 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2930 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2931 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2932 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2934 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2935 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2936 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2937 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2938 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2939 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2940 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2941 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2942 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2944 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2945 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2946 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2947 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2949 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2950 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2951 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2952 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2953 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2954 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2955 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2956 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2957 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2958 details in the main documentation.
2960 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2962 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2964 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2965 repository when doing development or release builds.
2967 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2968 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2970 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2971 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2974 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2976 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2977 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2979 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2980 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2982 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2983 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2985 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2986 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2988 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2989 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2991 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2993 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2996 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2997 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2998 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3000 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3002 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3004 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3005 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3011 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3013 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3014 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3016 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3018 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3020 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3023 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3024 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3026 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3027 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3029 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3030 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3032 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3035 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3036 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3038 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3039 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3040 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3041 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3043 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3044 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3050 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3053 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3054 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3055 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3057 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3058 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3060 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3061 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3062 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3064 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3065 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3067 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3068 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3070 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3071 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3073 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3074 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3076 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3077 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3079 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3082 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3083 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3085 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3086 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3088 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3089 SQL string expansion failure details.
3090 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3092 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3093 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3095 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3096 extern declarations in function scope.
3097 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3099 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3100 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3101 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3104 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3105 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3107 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3108 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3110 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3111 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3113 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3114 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3116 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3117 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3120 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3122 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3124 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3125 Patch by Simon Arlott
3127 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3128 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3134 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3135 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3137 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3138 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3140 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3142 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3143 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3144 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3146 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3147 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3148 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3150 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3151 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3152 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3153 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3155 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3156 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3157 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3158 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3160 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3161 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3162 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3165 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3168 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3169 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3170 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3171 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3172 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3178 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3179 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3180 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3182 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3183 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3185 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3187 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3189 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3191 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3193 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3195 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3196 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3197 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3198 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3200 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3201 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3202 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3203 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3204 more caution in buffer sizes.
3206 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3208 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3210 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3212 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3214 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3216 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3218 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3220 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3221 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3222 ignore trailing whitespace.
3224 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3226 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3229 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3230 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3232 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3233 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3234 Notification from John Horne.
3236 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3239 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3240 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3243 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3246 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3247 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3248 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3250 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3251 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3252 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3255 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3256 option (effectively making it always true).
3258 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3259 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3261 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3262 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3264 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3265 run-time user, instead of root.
3267 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3268 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3270 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3271 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3274 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3275 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3276 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3278 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3280 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3286 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3287 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3290 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3291 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3294 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3295 Patch from Alain Williams
3297 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3299 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3300 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3302 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3303 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3305 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3307 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3309 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3310 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3312 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3314 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3316 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3317 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3318 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3320 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3321 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3323 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3324 Patch by Simon Arlott
3326 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3327 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3333 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3335 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3337 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3339 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3341 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3347 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3348 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3350 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3351 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3354 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3355 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3356 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3358 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3359 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3361 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3362 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3363 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3364 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3366 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3367 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3368 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3370 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3372 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3374 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3375 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3377 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3379 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3380 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3381 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3382 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3384 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3385 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3387 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3389 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3391 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3392 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3394 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3395 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3397 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3398 that they are available at delivery time.
3400 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3402 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3403 incoming_port log selectors.
3405 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3406 setting expands to an empty string.
3408 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3409 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3411 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3412 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3414 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3415 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3417 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3418 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3420 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3421 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3423 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3424 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3426 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3428 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3429 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3431 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3432 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3434 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3436 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3437 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3439 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3441 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3443 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3446 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3447 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3449 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3450 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3452 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3453 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3455 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3456 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3458 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3459 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3461 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3462 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3464 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3465 plus update to original patch.
3467 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3469 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3470 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3472 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3474 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3476 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3478 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3480 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3481 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3483 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3484 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3486 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3487 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3489 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3490 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3492 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3494 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3496 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3498 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3504 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3505 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3506 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3508 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3509 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3510 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3511 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3512 build errors in sieve.c.
3514 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3515 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3516 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3518 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3520 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3522 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3524 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3530 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3532 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3533 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3534 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3535 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3536 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3537 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3538 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3539 for iplsearch lookups.
3541 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3542 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3543 previously such lookups could never work.
3545 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3546 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3547 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3549 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3552 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3553 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3554 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3555 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3556 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3557 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3559 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3560 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3562 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3563 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3564 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3565 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3566 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3567 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3569 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3572 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3574 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3575 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3578 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3579 by clients under certain conditions.
3581 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3582 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3584 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3586 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3587 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3589 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3591 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3593 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3595 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3596 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3598 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3600 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3601 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3603 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3605 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3607 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3608 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3609 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3610 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3612 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3613 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3614 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3616 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3617 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3619 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3621 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3623 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3625 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3626 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3627 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3633 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3634 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3637 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3638 issue a MAIL command.
3640 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3642 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3644 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3645 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3646 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3647 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3648 item. This has been fixed.
3650 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3651 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3653 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3654 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3656 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3657 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3658 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3660 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3662 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3663 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3664 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3665 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3666 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3668 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3669 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3670 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3672 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3673 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3674 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3675 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3677 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3679 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3681 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3682 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3683 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3684 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3685 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3687 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3689 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3690 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3691 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3694 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3696 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3698 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3700 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3702 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3704 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3705 no_callout_flush is set.
3707 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3708 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3709 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3712 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3714 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3715 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3716 other ACL rejections are.
3718 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3719 with slight modification.
3721 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3722 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3724 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3725 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3728 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3729 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3731 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3733 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3734 expansion side effects.
3736 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3737 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3738 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3741 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3742 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3743 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3745 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3746 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3747 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3748 were accidentally chopped off.
3750 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3751 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3752 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3753 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3754 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3755 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3756 pipelining has not been advertised.
3758 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3760 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3761 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3762 This has been fixed.
3764 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3765 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3766 reported on Solaris.
3768 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3769 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3770 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3771 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3772 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3773 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3774 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3776 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3779 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3781 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3783 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3784 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3785 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3786 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3787 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3788 criteria to be more general.
3790 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3791 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3792 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3793 host_all_ignored option.
3795 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3796 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3797 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3798 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3799 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3800 is what is supposed to happen).
3802 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3803 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3804 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3805 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3806 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3809 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3810 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3811 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3812 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3813 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3814 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3817 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3819 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3820 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3822 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3823 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3825 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3827 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3829 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3830 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3831 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3832 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3833 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3834 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3835 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3836 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3837 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3838 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3839 least in a lot of common cases.
3841 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3842 advertised in response to EHLO.
3848 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3849 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3851 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3852 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3854 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3855 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3856 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3858 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3859 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3860 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3861 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3862 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3868 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3869 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3872 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3873 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3874 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3876 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3877 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3878 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3879 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3880 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3881 rather than extend the field.
3887 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3888 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3889 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3890 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3893 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3894 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3895 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3897 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3898 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3899 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3901 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3902 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3903 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3906 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3907 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3908 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3909 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3910 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3911 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3912 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3913 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3914 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3915 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3916 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3918 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3921 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3922 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3923 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3924 ignores EPIPE as well.
3926 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3927 (quoted-printable decoding).
3929 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3930 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3932 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3934 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3936 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3938 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3939 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3941 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3944 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3945 miscellaneous code fixes
3947 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3950 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3951 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3952 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3953 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3954 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3955 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3956 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3957 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3959 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3960 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3961 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3962 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3964 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3965 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3966 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3967 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3968 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3969 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3970 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3971 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3972 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3974 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3977 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3978 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3979 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3980 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3981 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3982 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3983 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3984 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3986 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3987 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3990 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3991 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3992 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3993 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3994 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3995 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3996 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3997 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3998 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3999 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4000 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4001 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4002 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4004 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4005 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4006 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4007 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4008 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4009 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4010 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4012 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4013 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4014 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4015 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4016 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4017 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4018 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4019 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4020 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4021 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4023 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4024 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4025 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4026 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4027 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4029 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4030 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4031 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4032 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4033 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4034 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4035 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4037 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4038 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4039 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4040 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4041 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4042 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4045 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4046 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4047 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4050 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4051 if any retry times were supplied.
4053 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4054 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4055 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4057 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4059 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4061 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4062 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4063 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4064 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4065 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4066 before) are ignored.
4068 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4069 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4071 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4072 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4073 committing the later change.]
4075 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4076 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4077 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4078 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4079 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4080 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4081 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4082 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4083 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4085 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4086 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4087 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4088 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4089 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4090 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4091 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4092 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4093 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4095 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4096 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4097 hammering the server.
4099 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4100 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4102 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4104 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4105 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4106 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4108 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4109 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4110 one case where this was not true.
4112 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4113 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4114 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4115 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4118 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4119 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4120 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4121 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4122 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4123 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4124 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4125 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4126 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4129 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4130 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4131 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4132 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4134 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4135 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4137 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4138 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4139 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4141 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4143 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4145 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4147 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4148 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4149 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4150 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4152 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4153 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4155 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4156 be meaningful with "accept".
4158 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4159 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4161 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4162 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4163 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4165 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4166 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4167 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4168 there is data to show.
4169 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4171 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4172 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4173 as well as the number of messages.
4175 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4176 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4177 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4179 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4180 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4181 have a flag are now skipped.
4183 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4184 Added the -emptyok flag.
4186 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4187 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4189 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4190 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4191 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4193 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4196 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4197 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4199 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4201 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4202 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4204 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4206 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4207 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4208 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4209 contravention of the specifications.
4211 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4212 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4213 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4215 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4216 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4217 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4219 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4221 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4222 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4223 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4224 some point in the past.
4226 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4227 transport during callout processing was broken.
4229 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4230 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4232 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4233 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4235 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4236 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4238 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4244 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4245 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4247 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4248 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4249 there is data to show.
4250 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4252 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4253 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4255 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4256 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4258 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4259 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4261 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4262 submissions from trusted users.
4264 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4265 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4267 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4268 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4269 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4270 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4271 there is now a framework to start from.
4273 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4274 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4275 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4277 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4279 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4281 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4283 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4284 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4285 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4287 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4290 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4291 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4292 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4294 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4295 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4296 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4299 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4300 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4301 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4302 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4303 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4305 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4306 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4308 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4310 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4311 operations in malware.c.
4313 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4316 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4317 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4318 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4321 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4322 statements to "add_header".
4324 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4325 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4327 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4328 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4331 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4335 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4336 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4337 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4340 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4341 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4343 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4344 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4346 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4347 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4348 any possible encoding problems.
4350 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4351 but not after initializing Perl.
4353 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4354 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4355 apparently, which is not desirable.
4357 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4360 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4363 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4365 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4366 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4367 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4368 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4370 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4371 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4372 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4374 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4375 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4376 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4379 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4380 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4381 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4382 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4383 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4389 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4390 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4392 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4395 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4396 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4397 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4398 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4399 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4400 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4401 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4402 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4405 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4407 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4408 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4409 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4411 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4412 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4413 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4416 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4417 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4419 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4420 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4421 option (which defaults to 0600).
4423 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4425 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4426 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4427 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4428 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4429 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4430 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4431 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4433 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4439 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4440 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4441 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4442 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4443 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4444 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4447 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4448 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4450 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4452 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4453 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4454 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4455 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4456 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4459 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4460 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4462 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4463 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4464 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4465 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4466 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4468 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4469 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4470 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4471 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4473 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4474 be the same on different OS.
4476 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4479 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4480 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4482 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4485 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4486 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4487 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4488 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4489 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4490 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4493 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4494 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4495 when Exim was called.
4497 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4498 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4500 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4501 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4502 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4503 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4505 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4506 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4507 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4508 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4511 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4512 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4513 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4515 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4516 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4517 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4519 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4522 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4523 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4524 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4525 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4526 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4527 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4528 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4529 values from the SRV records were lost.
4531 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4532 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4533 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4535 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4536 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4537 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4539 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4540 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4541 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4542 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4543 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4544 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4545 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4546 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4547 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4548 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4550 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4551 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4552 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4554 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4555 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4557 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4558 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4559 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4560 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4563 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4564 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4565 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4567 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4568 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4569 PH/23 above applies.
4571 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4572 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4573 (for which there is an explicit test).
4575 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4577 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4578 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4579 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4580 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4581 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4583 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4584 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4585 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4586 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4588 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4589 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4590 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4592 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4594 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4596 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4597 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4598 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4600 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4601 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4602 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4603 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4604 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4606 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4607 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4608 the message gets confusing).
4610 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4611 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4612 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4613 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4615 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4616 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4617 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4618 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4621 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4622 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4623 the different processes.
4625 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4627 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4629 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4630 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4632 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4633 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4635 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4636 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4637 messages matching specified criteria.
4639 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4641 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4642 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4644 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4645 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4646 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4647 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4648 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4649 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4650 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4651 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4652 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4653 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4655 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4656 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4657 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4659 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4661 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4662 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4663 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4664 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4665 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4666 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4667 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4670 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4671 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4673 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4675 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4677 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4679 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4680 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4681 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4682 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4683 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4684 size of the count of files.
4686 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4688 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4691 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4692 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4693 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4694 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4696 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4697 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4698 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4700 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4701 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4702 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4703 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4704 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4706 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4707 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4709 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4710 will now be deprecated.
4712 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4714 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4715 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4716 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4718 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4719 with very large, slow to parse queues
4721 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4723 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4725 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4726 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4727 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4730 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4731 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4732 Sieve code now uses this.
4734 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4735 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4737 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4738 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4740 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4742 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4743 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4744 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4745 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4746 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4748 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4749 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4750 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4751 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4753 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4755 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4757 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4758 is preferred over IPv4.
4760 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4761 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4762 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4763 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4764 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4765 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4766 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4768 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4769 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4770 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4772 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4774 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4775 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4776 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4777 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4778 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4779 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4780 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4781 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4782 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4783 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4784 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4786 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4787 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4788 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4794 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4796 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4797 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4799 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4800 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4801 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4803 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4805 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4808 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4811 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4812 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4813 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4816 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4817 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4819 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4820 inside the third argument.
4822 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4823 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4826 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4827 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4829 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4830 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4832 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4834 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4835 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4838 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4840 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4841 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4842 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4843 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4844 identical. For example:
4846 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4848 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4849 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4850 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4852 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4853 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4854 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4855 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4857 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4858 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4859 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4862 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4864 o fixes some comments
4865 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4866 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4867 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4868 and documents the missing references header update
4872 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4873 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4876 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4877 Electronic Mail") by including:
4879 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4881 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4882 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4883 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4884 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4885 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4887 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4889 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4891 The auto-replied keyword:
4893 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4894 message by an automatic process,
4896 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4898 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4899 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4901 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4902 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4905 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4906 to the default Received: header definition.
4908 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4910 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4911 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4912 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4914 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4915 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4916 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4918 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4919 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4920 and treats the condition as false.
4922 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4924 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4925 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4926 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4927 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4928 not changing the active code.
4930 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4931 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4933 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4934 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4936 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4939 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4940 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4941 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4942 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4943 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4944 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4945 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4946 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4947 the text comparison.
4949 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4950 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4951 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4952 The same fix has been applied.
4958 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4959 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4962 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4963 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4965 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4967 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4968 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4969 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4970 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4971 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4973 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4974 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4975 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4976 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4979 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4987 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4988 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4990 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4992 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4994 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4995 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4996 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4998 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4999 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5000 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5002 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5003 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5006 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5007 ${stat: expansion item.
5009 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5010 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5012 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5013 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5016 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5018 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5021 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5022 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5024 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5026 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5027 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5028 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5029 the end of the subprocess.
5031 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5032 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5033 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5034 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5035 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5037 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5039 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5041 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5042 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5044 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5046 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5048 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5049 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5052 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5054 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5055 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5056 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5058 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5059 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5061 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5062 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5064 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5065 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5067 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5068 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5070 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5071 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5072 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5073 contributed by a Radius user.
5075 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5076 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5078 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5079 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5081 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5084 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5085 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5088 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5089 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5090 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5091 header lines when this was not necessary.
5093 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5095 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5096 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5097 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5100 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5103 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5104 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5105 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5106 return code was incorrect.
5108 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5110 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5112 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5114 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5116 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5117 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5118 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5119 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5120 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5123 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5125 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5126 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5127 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5128 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5129 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5130 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5131 which is clearly wrong.
5133 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5135 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5136 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5137 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5140 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5141 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5143 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5145 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5146 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5148 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5149 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5151 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5152 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5154 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5155 recipients, not senders.
5157 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5158 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5160 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5162 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5164 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5165 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5166 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5167 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5169 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5171 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5172 clock is set back in time.
5174 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5175 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5177 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5178 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5180 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5181 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5184 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5185 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5188 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5191 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5193 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5194 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5195 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5197 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5198 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5199 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5200 helo verification defer as a failure.
5202 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5203 actual error message.
5209 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5211 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5212 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5213 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5214 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5216 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5218 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5219 can still be requested.
5221 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5222 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5223 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5224 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5226 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5227 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5228 circumstances, but probably never did.
5230 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5231 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5232 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5235 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5237 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5238 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5240 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5242 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5244 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5245 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5246 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5247 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5248 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5249 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5251 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5252 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5253 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5254 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5255 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5256 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5258 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5259 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5261 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5262 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5264 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5265 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5267 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5269 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5271 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5273 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5275 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5277 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5279 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5281 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5282 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5283 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5285 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5286 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5287 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5288 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5290 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5291 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5292 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5294 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5295 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5296 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5297 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5299 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5300 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5303 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5304 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5305 should work with maildirs and everything.
5307 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5308 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5310 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5313 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5314 function for BDB 4.3.
5316 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5318 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5319 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5322 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5323 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5324 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5325 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5326 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5327 formatting function string_vformat().
5329 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5330 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5331 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5332 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5333 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5334 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5335 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5336 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5338 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5339 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5342 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5343 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5345 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5346 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5347 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5348 test. It is now used for both.
5350 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5351 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5352 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5353 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5354 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5355 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5357 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5358 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5359 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5362 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5363 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5364 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5366 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5367 experimental DomainKeys support:
5369 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5370 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5371 the control was given.
5373 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5375 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5377 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5379 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5380 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5381 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5384 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5385 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5386 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5387 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5388 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5389 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5392 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5393 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5394 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5395 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5396 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5397 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5399 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5400 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5401 do -d+all out of habit.
5403 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5404 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5407 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5408 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5409 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5410 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5411 record types that Exim uses.
5413 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5414 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5415 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5416 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5417 non-existent file that was broken.
5419 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5420 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5422 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5423 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5424 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5426 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5428 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5429 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5430 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5431 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5432 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5435 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5436 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5437 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5438 at a slight CPU cost.
5440 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5441 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5443 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5446 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5448 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5449 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5455 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5456 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5458 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5460 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5462 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5463 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5465 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5466 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5467 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5468 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5469 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5470 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5473 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5474 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5475 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5476 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5479 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5480 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5481 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5482 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5483 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5484 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5485 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5488 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5489 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5491 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5492 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5493 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5494 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5495 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5496 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5498 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5499 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5500 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5501 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5503 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5506 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5507 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5509 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5510 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5511 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5512 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5515 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5517 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5518 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5520 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5521 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5522 to what was transported.)
5524 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5526 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5527 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5528 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5529 spamd_address settings.
5531 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5532 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5533 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5534 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5535 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5537 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5539 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5540 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5541 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5542 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5543 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5545 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5546 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5548 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5549 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5550 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5551 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5552 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5553 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5554 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5557 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5558 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5559 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5560 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5561 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5562 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5563 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5566 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5568 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5569 driver and ACL definitions.
5571 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5572 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5574 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5575 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5576 understands it better than I do:
5578 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5579 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5581 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5582 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5583 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5584 => three warnings about OTP not working
5585 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5587 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5588 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5589 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5590 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5592 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5593 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5595 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5596 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5597 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5599 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5600 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5603 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5604 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5607 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5608 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5609 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5611 warn !verify = sender
5612 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5614 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5615 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5617 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5619 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5620 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5622 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5623 nomenclature these days.)
5625 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5626 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5628 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5629 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5630 . First host does not offer TLS;
5631 . First host accepts first address;
5632 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5633 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5634 . Second host accepts second address.
5635 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5636 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5639 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5640 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5641 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5642 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5643 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5645 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5646 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5648 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5649 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5651 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5652 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5653 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5655 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5656 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5659 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5661 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5662 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5663 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5664 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5665 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5666 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5667 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5669 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5670 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5671 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5672 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5673 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5675 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5676 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5679 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5680 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5681 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5682 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5683 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5684 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5686 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5688 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5689 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5690 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5691 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5692 printable escape sequences.
5694 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5695 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5698 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5699 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5702 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5703 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5704 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5705 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5706 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5708 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5709 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5710 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5712 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5714 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5715 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5718 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5719 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5720 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5721 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5722 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5723 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5724 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5725 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5726 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5729 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5730 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5731 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5732 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5736 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5737 ----------------------------------------
5739 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5740 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5741 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5742 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5743 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5744 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5747 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5748 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5749 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5750 historical information.
5756 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5758 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5759 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5761 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5762 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5765 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5766 filter fails to execute.
5768 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5769 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5770 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5771 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5772 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5774 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5776 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5777 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5778 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5779 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5781 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5782 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5783 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5784 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5785 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5787 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5789 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5791 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5792 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5793 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5794 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5796 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5797 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5798 sender verification.
5800 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5801 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5803 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5805 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5808 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5809 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5811 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5812 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5814 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5815 information about exactly what failed.
5817 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5819 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5820 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5821 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5823 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5824 It is now set to "smtps".
5826 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5827 ignore_target_hosts.
5829 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5830 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5831 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5832 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5835 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5836 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5837 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5839 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5840 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5841 wake it up if nothing else does.
5843 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5844 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5845 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5848 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5849 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5851 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5853 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5854 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5855 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5856 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5857 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5858 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5859 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5860 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5862 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5863 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5864 than one IP address.
5866 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5867 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5868 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5869 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5871 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5872 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5873 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5874 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5875 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5878 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5879 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5880 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5881 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5883 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5884 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5887 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5888 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5889 $sender_host_address.
5891 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5892 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5893 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5894 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5895 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5898 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5900 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5901 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5903 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5904 just the host names, not the priorities.
5906 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5907 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5908 controlled by a keyword.
5910 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5911 multiple records are returned.
5913 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5914 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5917 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5919 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5920 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5922 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5923 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5924 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5926 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5928 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5930 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5932 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5933 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5934 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5935 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5936 because the tests only now provoked it.
5938 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5939 (this can affect the format of dates).
5941 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5942 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5943 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5944 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5946 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5948 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5949 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5950 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5951 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5953 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5954 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5955 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5957 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5960 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5961 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5962 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5963 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5964 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5965 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5968 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5969 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5970 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5973 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5974 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5975 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5977 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5978 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5979 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5980 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5981 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5982 so I produce this patch..."
5984 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5985 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5988 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5989 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5990 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5991 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5994 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5996 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5997 long debug lines gets shown.
5999 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6000 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6002 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6004 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6005 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6006 of $primary_hostname.
6008 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6009 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6010 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6011 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6012 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6013 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6014 by change 4.50/55 above.
6016 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6017 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6018 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6019 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6020 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6021 running as the user.
6024 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6025 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6026 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6029 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6030 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6032 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6033 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6034 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6035 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6036 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6038 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6039 This has been fixed.
6041 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6042 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6043 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6044 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6047 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6049 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6050 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6051 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6052 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6054 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6055 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6057 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6058 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6059 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6061 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6062 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6063 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6066 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6067 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6068 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6070 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6071 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6072 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6073 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6075 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6076 during host lookups.
6078 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6079 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6081 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6083 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6084 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6085 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6086 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6087 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6090 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6091 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6093 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6094 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6095 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6097 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6099 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6100 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6101 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6102 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6103 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6104 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6107 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6108 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6109 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6110 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6111 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6113 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6116 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6118 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6119 "vacation" handling.
6121 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6122 OS variants using glibc.
6124 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6127 ----------------------------------------------------
6128 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6129 ----------------------------------------------------
6135 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6136 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6139 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6140 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6143 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6144 filter fails to execute.
6146 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6147 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6148 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6149 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6150 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6152 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6153 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6154 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6155 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6157 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6158 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6159 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6160 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6161 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6163 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6165 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6166 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6167 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6168 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6170 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6171 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6172 sender verification.
6174 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6175 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6177 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6178 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6180 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6181 ignore_target_hosts.
6183 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6184 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6185 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6186 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6189 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6190 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6191 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6193 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6194 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6195 wake it up if nothing else does.
6197 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6198 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6199 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6202 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6203 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6205 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6207 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6208 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6211 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6212 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6215 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6216 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6217 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6218 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6219 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6222 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6223 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6226 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6227 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6228 $sender_host_address.
6230 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6232 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6233 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6234 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6236 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6239 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6240 (this can affect the format of dates).
6242 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6243 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6244 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6245 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6247 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6248 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6249 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6251 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6252 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6253 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6254 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6256 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6257 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6258 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6260 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6263 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6264 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6265 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6266 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6267 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6268 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6271 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6272 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6273 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6274 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6277 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6278 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6279 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6280 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6281 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6282 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6283 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6285 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6286 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6287 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6288 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6289 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6290 running as the user.
6293 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6294 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6295 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6298 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6299 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6300 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6301 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6302 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6304 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6305 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6306 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6307 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6310 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6311 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6312 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6313 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6314 because the tests only now provoked it.
6320 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6321 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6322 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6323 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6324 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6325 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6326 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6328 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6329 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6332 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6334 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6336 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6337 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6340 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6341 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6342 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6343 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6344 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6346 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6347 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6349 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6351 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6353 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6356 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6357 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6359 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6360 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6361 affecting debugging statements).
6363 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6365 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6366 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6367 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6368 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6369 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6370 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6371 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6372 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6373 after the received time, and all would be well.
6375 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6376 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6377 condition in an expansion string.
6379 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6381 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6382 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6383 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6384 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6385 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6386 job under whatever limits there are.
6388 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6390 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6393 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6394 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6395 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6396 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6399 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6400 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6401 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6402 binary data in such strings.
6404 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6406 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6407 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6408 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6409 failure, which is pointless.
6411 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6413 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6415 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6416 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6417 Sender: header lines.
6419 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6420 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6421 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6423 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6424 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6425 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6426 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6427 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6430 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6431 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6432 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6433 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6434 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6436 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6437 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6438 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6441 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6442 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6444 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6445 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6447 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6449 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6451 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6453 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6456 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6458 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6460 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6461 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6462 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6463 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6465 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6466 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6472 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6473 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6474 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6476 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6477 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6478 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6479 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6480 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6481 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6483 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6484 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6485 verification failure".
6487 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6488 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6489 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6490 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6492 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6493 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6494 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6495 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6496 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6497 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6498 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6499 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6500 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6501 treated as a timeout.
6503 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6504 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6505 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6506 not set for Exim filters).
6508 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6509 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6510 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6512 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6514 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6515 try to make them clearer.
6517 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6518 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6520 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6522 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6524 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6525 only the Cygwin environment.
6527 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6528 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6529 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6530 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6531 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6533 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6534 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6535 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6536 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6537 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6538 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6539 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6541 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6542 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6544 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6546 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6547 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6548 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6550 To: susanne@some.where
6552 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6553 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6554 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6555 of addresses in From: header lines).
6557 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6558 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6559 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6561 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6562 treated as non-personal.
6564 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6565 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6567 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6569 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6571 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6572 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6573 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6575 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6576 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6578 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6579 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6580 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6581 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6582 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6583 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6585 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6586 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6587 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6588 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6589 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6590 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6591 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6592 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6594 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6596 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6597 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6599 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6600 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6601 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6603 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6604 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6606 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6607 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6608 rather than long int.
6610 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6612 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6618 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6619 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6620 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6621 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6622 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6623 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6629 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6630 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6632 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6633 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6634 socklen_t is defined.
6636 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6639 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6642 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6643 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6644 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6645 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6646 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6648 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6649 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6650 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6651 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6653 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6654 of flapping under certain conditions.
6656 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6657 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6658 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6660 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6662 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6664 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6665 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6666 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6667 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6669 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6670 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6671 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6672 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6673 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6674 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6675 preserved with the message after it was received.
6677 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6678 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6679 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6680 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6681 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6682 test suite worked just fine.
6684 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6685 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6686 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6688 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6689 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6692 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6693 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6694 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6695 does not fully solve it.
6697 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6698 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6699 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6700 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6701 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6703 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6704 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6705 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6707 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6708 string, for example:
6710 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6712 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6713 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6714 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6715 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6716 the routers could not see them.
6718 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6719 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6721 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6722 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6725 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6726 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6727 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6728 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6729 that needed quoting.
6731 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6732 was not being matched caselessly.
6734 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6737 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6738 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6739 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6740 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6741 when use_sender is false.
6743 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6745 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6747 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6749 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6750 the configuration file.
6752 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6753 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6755 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6757 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6758 bytes in the message body.
6760 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6761 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6764 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6766 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6768 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6769 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6770 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6771 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6778 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6779 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6781 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6782 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6783 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6784 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6785 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6787 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6788 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6790 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6791 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6792 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6794 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6795 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6796 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6798 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6801 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6802 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6803 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6804 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6805 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6806 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6807 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6813 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6814 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6815 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6816 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6817 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6818 default (and expected) setting.
6820 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6821 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6822 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6823 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6825 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6826 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6828 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6831 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6832 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6833 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6834 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6835 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6836 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6838 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6839 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6840 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6842 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6843 part (NOT match_host).
6845 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6847 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6848 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6849 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6850 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6851 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6852 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6853 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6854 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6855 the same named file.
6857 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6858 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6861 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6862 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6863 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6864 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6867 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6868 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6869 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6871 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6873 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6875 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6877 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6878 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6880 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6881 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6882 before starting the TLS session.
6884 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6886 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6887 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6889 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6890 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6891 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6892 colon in the middle).
6898 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6899 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6900 multiple configurations are in use.
6902 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6903 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6904 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6905 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6906 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6907 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6909 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6910 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6912 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6913 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6914 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6916 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6917 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6920 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6921 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6923 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6925 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6926 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6928 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6936 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6937 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6938 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6939 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6940 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6942 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6945 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6946 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6947 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6948 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6949 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6950 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6952 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6953 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6954 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6955 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6956 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6957 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6958 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6961 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6962 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6963 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6964 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6965 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6967 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6969 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6970 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6971 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6973 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6975 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6976 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6977 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6980 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6981 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6983 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6984 Three changes have been made:
6986 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6987 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6988 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6989 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6990 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6992 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6995 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6996 the modified behaviour.
7002 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7005 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7006 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7008 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7009 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7010 try to track down a specific problem.
7012 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7013 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7014 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7016 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7019 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7020 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7021 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7022 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7023 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7024 some earlier ones do not.
7026 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7028 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7029 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7030 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7031 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7032 address literals are enabled, of course).
7034 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7036 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7037 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7038 by a command such as
7042 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7044 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7046 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7047 remained set. It is now erased.
7049 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7050 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7052 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7053 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7054 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7055 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7056 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7057 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7058 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7059 appropriate error code.
7061 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7062 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7063 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7064 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7065 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7066 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7068 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7069 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7070 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7072 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7073 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7074 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7075 terminate the header.
7077 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7078 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7079 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7081 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7082 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7083 (4.30/29). In particular:
7085 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7088 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7089 to write a maildirsize file.
7091 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7092 the transport, the new value overrides.
7094 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7097 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7098 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7099 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7102 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7103 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7104 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7107 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7108 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7109 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7111 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7112 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7115 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7116 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7117 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7119 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7121 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7123 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7125 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7126 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7129 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7130 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7131 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7132 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7133 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7134 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7135 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7138 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7139 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7140 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7141 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7142 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7145 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7146 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7147 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7148 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7149 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7150 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7151 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7152 cached value only when the same options are set.
7154 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7156 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7157 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7158 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7159 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7160 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7162 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7163 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7164 it is clearly obsolete.
7166 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7169 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7170 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7171 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7174 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7175 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7176 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7177 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7178 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7180 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7181 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7182 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7183 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7185 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7187 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7189 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7190 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7193 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7194 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7195 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7196 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7197 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7198 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7201 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7202 with the -f command-line option.
7204 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7205 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7206 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7207 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7208 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7209 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7211 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7212 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7215 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7216 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7217 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7218 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7219 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7220 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7221 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7222 buffer is too small.
7224 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7225 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7227 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7228 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7229 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7230 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7231 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7232 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7233 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7234 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7235 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7237 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7238 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7239 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7241 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7242 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7245 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7246 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7247 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7248 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7249 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7251 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7252 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7253 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7254 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7257 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7259 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7261 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7262 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7264 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7265 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7266 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7268 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7269 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7270 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7271 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7272 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7274 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7275 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7276 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7277 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7278 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7279 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7280 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7282 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7283 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7284 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7285 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7286 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7287 the test of how many are available.
7289 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7290 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7291 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7292 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7293 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7294 new message is started.
7296 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7297 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7299 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7300 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7302 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7303 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7304 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7307 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7308 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7309 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7310 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7311 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7312 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7313 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7315 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7316 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7317 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7318 interpreted as octal.
7320 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7323 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7324 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7325 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7326 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7327 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7328 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7330 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7331 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7332 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7333 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7335 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7336 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7337 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7338 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7340 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7341 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7344 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7345 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7347 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7349 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7350 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7351 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7352 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7354 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7355 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7356 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7357 supplied", which is not helpful.
7359 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7360 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7361 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7363 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7364 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7365 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7366 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7367 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7368 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7369 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7370 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7372 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7373 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7374 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7375 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7376 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7378 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7379 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7380 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7381 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7382 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7383 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7385 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7386 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7387 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7389 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7391 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7392 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7393 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7396 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7398 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7399 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7400 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7401 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7402 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7403 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7404 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7405 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7407 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7408 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7409 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7410 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7411 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7413 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7416 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7417 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7418 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7419 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7420 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7421 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7422 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7423 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7424 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7430 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7431 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7432 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7434 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7437 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7438 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7439 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7441 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7442 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7443 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7444 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7445 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7446 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7448 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7449 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7450 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7451 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7452 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7453 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7454 the Exim test suite.
7456 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7457 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7458 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7459 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7461 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7462 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7463 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7464 specify it in this variable.
7466 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7467 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7468 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7469 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7471 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7472 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7473 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7474 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7476 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7477 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7478 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7479 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7480 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7482 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7484 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7487 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7488 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7489 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7490 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7491 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7493 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7494 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7496 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7497 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7498 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7499 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7500 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7502 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7503 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7505 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7506 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7507 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7509 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7510 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7512 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7513 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7515 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7516 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7517 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7519 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7520 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7522 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7523 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7524 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7525 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7527 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7529 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7530 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7531 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7532 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7534 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7536 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7537 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7539 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7541 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7542 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7543 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7544 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7545 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7546 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7548 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7550 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7551 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7554 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7556 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7557 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7559 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7560 550 Sender verify failed
7562 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7563 the final line of the response.
7565 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7566 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7567 all other user lookups.
7569 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7572 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7573 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7574 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7575 result into an int without checking.
7577 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7578 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7579 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7581 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7582 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7583 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7584 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7586 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7589 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7590 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7592 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7593 to the empty sender.
7595 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7596 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7597 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7598 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7599 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7600 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7601 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7604 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7605 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7606 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7607 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7610 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7611 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7613 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7616 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7617 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7619 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7621 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7622 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7625 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7626 as soon as it is encountered.
7628 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7630 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7633 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7634 recognizes a tab character.
7636 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7637 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7638 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7639 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7641 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7643 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7646 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7648 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7650 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7651 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7654 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7655 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7656 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7657 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7658 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7660 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7661 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7663 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7664 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7665 list (.included file names were always shown).
7667 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7668 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7669 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7672 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7673 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7675 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7677 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7679 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7681 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7682 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7683 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7684 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7685 failures to open the logs.
7687 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7688 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7689 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7690 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7691 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7692 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7693 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7699 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7700 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7701 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7704 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7705 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7706 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7708 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7709 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7710 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7712 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7713 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7714 causing some misleading effects.
7716 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7717 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7718 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7720 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7721 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7722 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7723 queue-runner function directly.
7729 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7732 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7733 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7734 was always written to the default place.
7736 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7737 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7738 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7740 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7742 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7744 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7745 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7746 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7748 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7749 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7752 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7753 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7754 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7756 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7757 command line option is disabled.
7759 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7760 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7762 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7764 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7766 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7767 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7769 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7771 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7772 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7773 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7774 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7775 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7776 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7778 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7779 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7782 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7783 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7785 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7786 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7788 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7789 received was valid base64.
7791 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7792 name of the variable that was being set.
7794 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7796 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7797 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7798 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7799 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7800 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7801 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7803 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7805 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7806 nor realm was specified.
7808 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7809 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7810 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7811 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7813 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7814 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7815 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7817 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7818 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7819 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7821 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7822 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7823 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7824 some systems use these upper case variants.
7826 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7827 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7828 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7829 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7831 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7833 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7834 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7836 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7837 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7840 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7842 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7843 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7844 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7845 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7847 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7850 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7851 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7852 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7854 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7855 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7857 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7858 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7859 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7860 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7862 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7863 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7864 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7866 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7868 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7869 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7870 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7871 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7874 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7875 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7876 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7878 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7880 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7881 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7883 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7884 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7886 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7887 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7888 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7889 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7890 when emails are that large.
7897 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7898 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7900 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7901 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7902 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7904 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7905 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7906 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7908 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7909 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7910 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7911 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7912 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7914 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7915 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7916 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7917 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7918 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7921 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7922 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7923 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7924 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7925 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7926 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7927 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7928 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7929 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7930 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7931 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7932 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7933 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7934 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7936 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7937 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7940 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7941 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7942 error should be diagnosed.
7944 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7945 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7946 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7947 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7948 appeared instead of "NULL".
7950 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7951 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7952 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7953 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7954 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7955 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7958 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7959 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7960 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7966 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7967 or receiver verification errors.
7969 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7972 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7973 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7974 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7975 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7977 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7978 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7979 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7980 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7981 shouldn't happen again.
7983 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7984 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7985 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7987 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7988 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7990 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7992 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7993 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7995 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7996 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7999 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8000 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8001 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8003 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8004 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8005 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8006 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8008 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8009 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8010 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8011 to define what should happen).
8013 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8014 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8015 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8017 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8019 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8021 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8022 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8024 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8025 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8026 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8027 structure in all cases.
8029 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8030 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8031 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8032 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8034 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8035 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8038 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8039 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8041 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8042 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8044 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8045 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8046 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8048 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8049 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8050 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8052 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8053 the book and for uniformity.
8055 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8057 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8058 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8059 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8060 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8061 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8062 non-existent command as the problem.
8064 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8065 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8066 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8068 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8070 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8071 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8072 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8074 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8075 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8076 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8077 timestamps using strftime().
8079 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8080 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8082 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8083 transport-time rewrites.
8085 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8086 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8087 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8088 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8090 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8091 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8093 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8094 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8095 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8096 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8099 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8100 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8101 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8102 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8103 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8104 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8105 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8107 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8108 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8109 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8110 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8111 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8113 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8114 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8115 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8116 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8117 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8118 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8119 remaining text gets split now.
8121 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8122 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8123 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8124 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8126 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8127 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8128 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8129 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8132 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8133 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8134 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8135 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8136 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8137 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8138 passed through if needed.
8140 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8141 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8142 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8143 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8144 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8145 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8147 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8148 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8149 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8150 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8151 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8153 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8154 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8155 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8156 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8157 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8159 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8160 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8163 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8164 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8165 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8166 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8167 mayhem of various kinds.
8169 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8170 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8171 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8172 the right test for positive values.
8174 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8175 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8176 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8177 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8178 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8179 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8180 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8181 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8182 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8183 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8186 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8189 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8190 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8193 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8194 the existing equality matching.
8196 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8197 dealing with inode numbers.
8199 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8200 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8201 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8203 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8204 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8205 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8206 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8209 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8210 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8211 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8212 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8213 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8214 relay addresses has also been removed.
8216 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8218 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8219 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8220 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8222 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8223 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8224 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8225 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8226 processing applies to CR:
8228 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8229 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8231 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8232 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8233 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8234 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8236 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8237 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8238 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8240 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8241 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8242 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8243 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8244 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8245 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8248 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8251 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8252 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8253 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8254 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8257 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8259 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8261 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8263 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8264 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8265 not considered personal.
8267 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8269 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8271 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8273 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8274 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8275 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8276 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8277 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8278 header lines, and spool format errors.
8280 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8281 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8282 for more flexibility.
8284 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8285 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8286 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8288 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8291 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8292 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8293 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8294 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8295 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8296 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8297 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8298 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8299 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8301 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8302 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8303 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8304 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8305 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8306 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8307 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8309 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8310 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8311 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8313 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8314 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8315 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8316 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8317 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8318 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8319 instead of killing the process with assert().
8321 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8322 than Unicode encoding.
8324 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8325 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8326 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8327 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8329 77. Added process_log_path.
8331 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8332 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8334 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8335 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8337 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8338 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8339 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8341 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8342 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8343 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8344 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8345 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8348 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8349 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8352 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8353 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8354 they will be used during message reception.
8360 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.