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 Use fewer forks & execs for sending many messages to a single host.
9 By passing back more info from the transport to the delivery process,
10 we can loop there. A two-phase queue run will benefit, particularly for
11 mailinglist and smarthost cases.
13 JH/02 Add transaction support for hintsdbs. The providers supported are tdb and
14 sqlite. Transactions are used for the wait-transport and retry DBs.
15 They imply locking internal to the DB. We no longer need a separate
16 lockfile, can keep the DB handle open for extended periods, yet
17 potentially benefit from concurrency on non-conflicting record uses.
19 JH/03 With dkim_verify_minimal, avoid calling the DKIM ACL after the first
22 JH/04 Remove the docs and support scripts dealing with conversion of Exim
23 version 3 installations.
25 JH/05 Fix hintsdb support for dbmjz when compiled using sqlite3. Previously
26 the backend support assumed keys would be simple C strings, but dbmjz
27 uses keys with embedded NUL bytes. The builtin hintsdb use is unaffected,
28 but installations using dbmjz will need to rebuild those DBs.
30 JH/06 Bug 1141: When operating a continued-connection transport, verify that
31 the interface option, if specified, evaluates to match the connection.
32 Previously, a queued message for the same host was sent without checking.
34 JH/07 Bug 3106: Fix coding in SPA authenticator. A macro argument was not
35 properly parenthesized, resulting in a logic error. While the simple
36 fix was provided by Andrew Aitchison, the over-large code block resulting
37 from this macro made me want to replace it with a real function so more
38 extensive rework becamse needed.
40 JH/08 The output of "exim -bV" now includes lookup types built as dynamic-load
43 JH/09 Not a change, but worthy of note: There is no test coverage of the
44 heimdall-gssapi authenticator driver. It does build, though with (on at
45 least one platform) library version conflicts with the gsasl auth
46 driver). Confidence in its operation is lacking.
48 JH/10 Bug 3108: On platforms not providing strchrnul() [OpenBSD] supply a proper
49 prototype (as well as implementaton). Previously, a return type "int"
50 was assumed, resulting in type-conversion bugs when int and pointer had
51 different size. This resulted in crashes while processing DKIM signatures
52 of received messages. Identification and fix from Qualys Security.
54 JH/11 Lookups built as dynamic-load modules which support a single lookup
55 type are now only loaded if required by the config. Previously all lookup
56 modules present in the modules directory were loaded; this now applies
57 only to those supporting multiple types.
62 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
63 it more usable in the data ACL.
65 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
66 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
67 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
68 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
69 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
70 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
73 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
74 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
75 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
77 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
78 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
79 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
80 paniclog entry was made.
82 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
83 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
84 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
85 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
86 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
87 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
89 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
90 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
93 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
94 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
96 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
97 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
98 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
99 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
101 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
102 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
103 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
104 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
106 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
107 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
110 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
111 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
112 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
113 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
115 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
116 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
117 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
118 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
120 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
121 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
122 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
124 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
125 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
126 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
129 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
130 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
131 written if there were rewrite rules.
133 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
136 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
137 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
138 one-time run of the queue.
140 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
143 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
144 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
145 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
146 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
147 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
148 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
150 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
151 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
152 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
153 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
154 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
155 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
156 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
157 to every line of a received message.
159 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
160 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
161 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
162 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
163 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
164 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
165 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
166 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
167 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
168 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
169 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
170 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
172 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
173 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
175 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
177 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
178 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
179 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
180 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
182 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
183 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
185 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
186 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
187 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
189 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
190 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
191 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
192 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
193 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
194 messages were created as a result.
195 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
197 JH/28 Bug 3086: Fix exinext for ipv6. Change the format of keys in the retry
198 DB, wrapping transport record bare-ip "host names" and ipv6
199 "host addresses" in square-brackets. This makes the parsing that
200 exinext does more reliable.
202 JH/29 Bug 3087: Fix SRS encode. A zero-length quoted element in the local-part
205 JH/30 Bug 3029: Avoid feeding Resent-From: to DMARC.
207 JH/31 Bug 3027: For -bh / -bhc tests change to using the compressed form of
208 ipv6 addresses for the sender. Previously the uncompressed form was used,
209 and if used in textual form this would result in behavior difference
212 JH/32 Bug 3096: MAIL before HELO/EHLO, where required by hosts_require_helo, is
213 now classed as a protocol error and subject to smtp_max_synprot_errors.
215 JH/33 Bug 2994: A subdir dsearch lookup should permit a directory name that starts
216 ".." and has following characters.
218 JH/34 Fix delivery ordering for 2-phase queue run combined with
221 JH/35 Bug 3099: fix parsing of MIME filename= split over multiple paramemters.
222 Previously the $mime_filename variable would have an incorrect value.
223 While in the code, extend coverage to name= which previously was only
224 supported for single parameters, despite also filling in $mime_filename.
230 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
231 SMTP connection" log lines.
233 JH/02 Option default value updates:
234 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
235 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
237 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
239 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
240 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
241 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
243 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
244 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
245 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
248 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
249 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
251 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
252 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
253 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
255 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
256 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
257 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
258 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
259 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
261 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
262 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
265 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
266 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
268 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
269 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
270 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
272 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
273 API changes in libopendmarc.
275 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
276 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
277 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
279 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
280 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
282 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
283 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
284 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
287 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
288 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
291 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
292 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
293 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
294 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
295 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
296 is strictly an incompatible change.
297 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
298 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
300 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
301 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
302 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
303 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
306 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
307 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
308 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
309 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
311 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
312 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
313 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
314 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
315 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
316 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
319 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
320 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
323 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
324 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
325 to not checking that list for these lookups.
327 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
330 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
331 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
332 was done, killing the process.
334 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
335 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
336 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
339 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
340 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
341 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
342 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
344 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
345 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
347 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
350 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
351 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
352 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
353 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
354 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
355 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
356 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
358 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
359 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
360 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
361 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
362 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
363 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
364 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
365 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
366 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
367 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
369 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
370 usable until about year 3700.
371 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
372 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
373 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
374 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
375 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
376 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
377 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
378 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
379 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
380 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
381 wait- hints databases.
383 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
384 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
385 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
388 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
389 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
390 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
392 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
393 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
395 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
396 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
398 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
399 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
401 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
402 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
404 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
406 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
407 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
408 had in fact been accepted.
410 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
411 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
412 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
413 bad coding of authenticators.
415 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
416 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
418 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
419 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
422 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
423 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
426 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
427 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
430 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
431 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
432 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
434 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
437 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
443 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
444 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
445 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
448 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
449 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
451 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
452 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
453 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
454 not be modified by local-scan code.
456 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
457 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
459 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
460 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
463 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
464 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
466 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
467 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
470 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
471 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
472 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
474 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
475 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
476 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
478 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
479 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
480 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
481 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
482 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
483 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
484 Assorted crashes happen.
486 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
487 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
488 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
491 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
492 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
493 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
494 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
496 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
497 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
498 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
501 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
503 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
504 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
507 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
508 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
509 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
511 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
512 result of expansion operators and items.
514 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
515 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
516 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
517 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
519 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
521 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
522 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
523 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
524 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
527 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
528 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
530 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
531 Previously only the domain part was returned.
533 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
534 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
535 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
536 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
538 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
539 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
540 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
541 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
543 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
544 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
545 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
546 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
547 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
550 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
551 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
552 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
554 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
555 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
556 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
557 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
559 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
560 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
561 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
562 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
564 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
565 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
566 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
567 Previously only the server IP was used.
569 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
570 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
571 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
572 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
574 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
575 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
576 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
578 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
579 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
580 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
583 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
584 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
586 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
587 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
593 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
594 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
595 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
597 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
598 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
599 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
600 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
602 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
603 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
604 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
605 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
606 so could be handling tainted values.
608 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
609 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
610 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
612 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
613 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
614 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
617 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
618 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
619 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
620 to align better with RFC 6125.
622 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
623 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
624 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
625 by adding a release action in that path.
627 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
628 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
629 dynamically-created buffers.
631 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
632 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
633 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
634 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
636 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
637 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
638 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
639 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
641 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
642 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
643 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
645 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
646 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
647 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
648 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
650 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
651 excluded, not matching the documentation.
653 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
654 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
656 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
657 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
658 this was a coding error.
660 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
661 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
662 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
663 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
664 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
665 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
666 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
668 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
669 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
670 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
671 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
673 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
674 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
675 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
676 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
677 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
679 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
680 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
683 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
684 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
685 domain-parking registrar.
687 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
688 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
689 after removing the newline.
691 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
692 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
693 option set, which was previously used.
695 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
698 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
699 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
700 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
701 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
703 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
704 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
705 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
706 exim.dev.20160529.3).
708 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
709 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
710 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
712 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
713 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
714 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
717 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
718 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
719 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
721 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
722 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
723 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
724 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
727 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
728 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
729 there, handle PRX and TFO.
731 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
732 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
733 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
734 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
735 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
737 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
738 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
739 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
740 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
743 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
744 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
746 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
749 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
750 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
751 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
752 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
753 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
755 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
757 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
758 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
759 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
760 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
761 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
762 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
764 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
765 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
767 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
768 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
769 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
771 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
772 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
775 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
776 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
777 of a new variable: $auth4.
779 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
780 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
781 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
782 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
783 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
785 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
786 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
787 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
788 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
790 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
791 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
792 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
794 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
795 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
796 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
797 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
800 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
801 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
802 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
805 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
806 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
807 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
808 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
810 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
811 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
813 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
814 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
815 looked as if if might be one.
817 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
818 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
819 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
820 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
821 messages can show the proxy information.
823 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
824 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
825 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
826 "queue_time_exclusive".
828 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
829 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
830 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
832 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
833 making it unusable in complex expressions.
835 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
836 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
839 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
841 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
843 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
845 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
846 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
847 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
848 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
850 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
851 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
853 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
854 better. Reported by Qualys.
856 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
857 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
860 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
862 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
865 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
867 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
868 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
869 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
870 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
872 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
873 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
875 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
876 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
877 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
878 mode until after various protocol state checks.
879 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
881 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
883 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
884 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
886 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
889 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
890 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
891 executed child processes (if any).
893 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
896 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
897 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
898 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
899 been reported on other platforms.
901 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
903 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
904 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
905 Not supported on Solaris 10.
907 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
908 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
909 since fakereject was originally introduced.
911 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
912 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
914 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
915 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
916 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
919 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
920 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
921 which only permit IP addresses.
927 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
928 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
929 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
931 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
933 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
934 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
937 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
938 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
939 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
941 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
943 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
945 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
946 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
947 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
949 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
950 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
951 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
953 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
954 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
956 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
957 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
960 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
961 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
962 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
963 should both provide the file and set the option.
964 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
966 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
967 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
969 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
970 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
971 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
972 Authentication-Results: header.
974 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
975 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
976 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
977 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
979 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
980 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
981 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
982 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
983 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
984 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
985 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
987 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
988 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
989 copies while it is still usable.
991 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
992 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
993 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
995 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
996 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
998 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
999 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
1000 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
1001 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
1003 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
1004 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
1005 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
1008 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
1009 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
1010 - the pipe transport command
1011 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
1012 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
1014 - paths used by single-key lookups
1015 Previously this was permitted.
1017 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
1018 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
1019 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
1020 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
1022 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
1023 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
1024 support larger malloc requests.
1026 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
1027 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
1028 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
1029 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
1031 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
1032 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
1033 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
1034 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
1037 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
1038 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
1039 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
1040 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
1041 data being length-specified.
1043 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
1044 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
1045 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
1046 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
1048 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
1049 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
1050 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
1051 not being properly tracked.
1053 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
1054 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
1055 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
1056 minute could be seen.
1058 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
1059 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
1060 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
1062 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
1063 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
1065 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
1066 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
1069 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
1071 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
1072 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
1074 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
1075 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
1076 filesystem as sufficient validation.
1078 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
1079 argument is supplied.
1081 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
1082 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1083 access under Exim's current working directory.
1085 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1086 Previously no event was raised.
1088 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1089 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1090 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1093 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1094 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1095 the size of the signature hash.
1097 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1098 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1100 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1101 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1102 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1103 dropped between messages.
1105 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1106 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1107 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1108 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1110 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1111 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1112 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1113 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1114 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1115 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1116 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1117 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1118 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1120 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1121 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1122 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1124 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1125 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1132 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1133 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1135 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1136 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1137 its own TCP segment.
1139 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1142 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1144 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1146 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1147 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1149 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1150 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1151 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1152 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1153 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1154 suitably configured).
1156 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1157 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1159 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1160 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1163 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1164 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1166 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1167 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1168 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1169 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1172 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1173 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1174 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1176 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1179 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1180 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1182 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1183 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1184 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1185 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1188 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1189 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1190 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1191 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1192 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1194 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1195 shared (NFS) environment.
1197 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1198 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1201 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1202 on some platforms for bit 31.
1204 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1205 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1206 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1207 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1208 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1209 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1210 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1211 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1213 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1215 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1216 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1218 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1219 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1222 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1223 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1226 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1227 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1228 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1231 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1232 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1233 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1235 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1236 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1237 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1238 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1239 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1241 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1244 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1245 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1246 be requested on all coneections.
1248 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1249 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1251 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1253 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1254 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1255 one for these; the option was ignored.
1257 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1258 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1259 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1260 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1262 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1263 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1264 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1267 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1268 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1269 error ignored was made.
1271 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1273 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1274 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1275 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1277 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1278 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1279 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1281 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1282 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1285 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1286 them in our smtp response.
1288 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1289 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1290 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1291 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1292 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1294 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1295 link count into consideration.
1297 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1298 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1300 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1301 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1302 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1305 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1307 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1309 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1311 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1312 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1313 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1314 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1316 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1318 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1319 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1322 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1323 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1324 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1326 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1327 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1328 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1330 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1331 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1332 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1333 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1334 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1335 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1336 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1337 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1339 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1340 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1341 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1343 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1344 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1345 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1347 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1348 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1355 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1356 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1358 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1359 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1361 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1362 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1363 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1365 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1366 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1367 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1369 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1370 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1371 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1372 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1373 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1376 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1377 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1379 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1380 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1381 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1382 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1383 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1384 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1385 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1387 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1388 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1390 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1393 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1394 Previously this would segfault.
1396 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1399 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1400 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1401 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1402 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1403 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1404 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1406 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1408 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1409 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1410 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1411 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1413 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1415 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1416 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1417 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1418 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1420 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1422 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1424 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1425 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1426 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1428 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1429 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1430 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1432 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1434 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1435 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1436 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1437 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1439 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1440 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1441 promised '?' replacement.
1443 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1445 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1446 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1447 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1448 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1449 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1451 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1452 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1453 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1455 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1456 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1457 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1459 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1460 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1461 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1463 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1464 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1465 hope that is portable enough.
1467 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1468 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1469 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1470 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1472 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1473 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1474 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1476 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1477 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1478 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1479 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1481 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1482 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1484 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1485 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1486 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1487 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1489 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1490 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1491 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1493 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1494 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1495 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1496 the previous G, M, k.
1498 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1499 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1502 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1503 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1504 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1505 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1507 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1508 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1510 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1511 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1512 off past the nul-terimation.
1514 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1515 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1516 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1517 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1518 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1520 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1522 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1523 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1524 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1527 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1528 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1530 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1531 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1532 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1534 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1535 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1536 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1538 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1539 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1545 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1546 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1547 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1548 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1549 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1550 be defined in redis_servers.
1552 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1553 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1555 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1556 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1557 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1558 extant use locations.
1560 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1561 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1563 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1564 Previously only the last row was returned.
1566 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1567 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1568 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1569 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1572 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1573 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1574 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1575 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1576 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1577 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1578 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1579 Main pool for expansions.
1580 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1581 active in the testsuite.
1582 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1584 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1585 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1586 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1587 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1590 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1591 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1594 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1595 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1596 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1598 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1599 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1600 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1602 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1603 rows affected is given instead).
1605 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1606 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1608 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1609 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1610 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1611 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1612 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1614 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1615 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1616 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1618 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1619 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1620 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1621 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1624 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1625 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1626 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1629 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1631 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1632 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1634 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1635 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1636 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1638 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1639 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1640 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1643 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1644 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1646 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1647 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1648 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1650 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1651 for the build is renamed.
1653 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1654 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1655 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1657 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1658 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1659 result replacing the original.
1661 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1662 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1663 and the resources needed to be freed.
1665 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1667 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1670 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1671 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1672 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1673 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1675 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1676 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1678 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1679 newer versions of the scanner.
1681 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1682 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1683 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1684 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1685 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1686 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1687 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1689 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1690 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1691 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1692 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1693 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1694 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1695 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1696 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1697 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1698 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1700 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1701 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1703 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1705 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1706 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1708 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1709 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1711 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1712 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1713 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1715 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1716 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1717 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1718 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1720 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1721 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1724 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1725 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1727 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1728 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1729 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1730 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1731 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1733 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1734 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1737 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1738 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1740 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1743 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1744 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1745 "bare" representation.
1747 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1748 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1749 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1750 corrupted the output.
1756 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1757 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1758 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1759 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1761 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1762 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1764 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1765 This permits better logging.
1767 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1768 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1769 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1770 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1771 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1772 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1774 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1775 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1778 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1779 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1780 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1782 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1783 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1785 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1786 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1787 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1788 client, there is no benefit for these.
1789 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1790 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1791 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1794 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1795 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1797 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1798 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1799 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1801 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1802 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1804 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1805 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1806 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1807 signature and again for transmission.
1809 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1810 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1811 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1813 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1814 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1815 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1816 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1817 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1818 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1819 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1821 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1822 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1823 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1824 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1826 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1827 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1828 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1829 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1830 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1831 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1834 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1835 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1836 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1837 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1840 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1841 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1842 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1843 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1846 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1847 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1850 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1851 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1852 banner-time rejection.
1854 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1857 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1858 is the name of a transport.
1861 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1863 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1864 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1866 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1867 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1868 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1871 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1872 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1873 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1874 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1876 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1877 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1878 initial verify call returned a defer.
1880 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1881 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1883 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1884 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1886 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1887 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1889 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1890 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1892 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1893 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1896 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1897 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1899 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1900 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1901 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1903 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1904 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1905 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1906 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1908 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1909 and confused the parent.
1911 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1912 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1914 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1917 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1918 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1919 out-of-order delivery.
1921 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1922 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1923 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1926 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1927 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1930 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1931 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1932 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1934 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1935 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1936 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1937 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1938 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1939 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1941 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1942 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1943 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1945 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1946 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1947 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1949 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1950 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1951 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1952 though a different problem.
1958 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1959 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1961 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1963 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1964 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1966 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1967 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1969 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1970 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1971 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1972 before acknowledging the chunk.
1974 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1975 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1976 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1978 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1979 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1980 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1983 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1984 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1985 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1987 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1988 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1990 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1991 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1992 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1993 body hash calculated value.
1995 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1996 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1997 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1999 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
2001 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
2002 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
2004 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
2005 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
2006 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
2008 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
2009 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
2010 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
2011 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
2012 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
2013 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
2015 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
2016 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
2017 past that check, despite the cost.
2019 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
2020 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
2021 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
2023 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
2024 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
2025 TLS library to consume.
2027 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
2029 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
2031 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
2032 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
2033 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
2034 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
2035 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
2036 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
2037 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
2039 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
2041 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
2043 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
2044 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
2045 should be warning-free.
2047 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
2049 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
2050 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
2052 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
2053 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
2054 general solution here.
2056 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
2057 already-broken messages in the queue.
2059 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
2061 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
2067 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
2068 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
2070 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
2071 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
2072 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
2074 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
2075 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
2076 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
2077 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
2078 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
2079 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
2080 if one fails this test.
2081 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
2082 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2084 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2085 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2087 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2088 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2090 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2091 in rewrites and routers.
2093 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2094 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2096 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2097 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2099 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2101 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2104 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2105 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2106 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2107 connection after a verify cache hit.
2108 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2110 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2111 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2113 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2114 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2115 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2116 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2117 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2119 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2120 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2122 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2123 Previously they were not counted.
2125 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2126 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2127 that needed the lookup.
2129 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2130 distinguished as "(=".
2132 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2133 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2135 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2137 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2138 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2140 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2141 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2143 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2144 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2147 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2148 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2149 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2150 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2152 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2154 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2155 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2156 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2158 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2159 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2160 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2163 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2164 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2165 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2168 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2169 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2170 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2172 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2173 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2176 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2178 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2179 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2181 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2182 are not in the system include path.
2184 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2185 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2186 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2187 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2189 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2190 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2191 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2193 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2195 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2196 an incoming connection.
2198 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2201 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2202 fallback to "prime256v1".
2204 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2205 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2211 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2212 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2213 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2214 client dropping the TLS connection.
2216 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2217 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2219 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2220 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2221 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2222 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2225 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2226 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2227 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2228 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2229 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2230 check on the next write.
2232 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2233 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2234 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2235 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2236 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2238 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2239 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2241 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2242 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2243 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2245 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2246 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2247 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2248 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2250 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2251 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2253 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2254 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2256 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2257 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2258 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2261 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2263 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2265 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2267 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2268 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2270 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2271 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2273 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2275 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2276 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2278 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2280 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2281 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2283 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2285 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2286 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2287 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2288 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2289 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2290 they will retry in-clear.
2291 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2292 at installation time.
2294 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2295 with the $config_file variable.
2297 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2298 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2299 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2300 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2301 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2303 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2304 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2305 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2306 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2307 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2309 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2311 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2312 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2313 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2314 list order is no longer honoured.
2316 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2317 for DKIM processing.
2319 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2320 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2322 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2323 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2324 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2325 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2327 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2328 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2330 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2331 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2333 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2334 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2336 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2338 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2339 cached by the daemon.
2341 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2342 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2344 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2345 keys are given for lookup.
2347 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2348 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2349 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2350 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2352 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2353 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2354 server-side so match that on older versions.
2356 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2357 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2358 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2360 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2361 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2363 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2364 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2365 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2366 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2367 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2368 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2369 initial truncated version.
2371 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2373 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2375 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2376 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2378 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2380 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2382 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2383 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2386 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2387 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2390 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2391 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2393 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2394 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2397 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2398 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2399 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2401 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2402 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2403 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2404 extraction. Accept either.
2410 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2413 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2415 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2418 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2419 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2420 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2421 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2423 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2424 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2425 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2427 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2428 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2429 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2432 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2435 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2436 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2437 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2438 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2439 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2441 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2442 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2443 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2445 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2447 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2448 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2450 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2451 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2453 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2456 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2457 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2459 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2460 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2461 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2463 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2464 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2465 specify a port-range.
2467 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2468 timeout value per server.
2470 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2471 now have the list separator specified.
2473 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2476 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2479 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2481 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2482 rather than the verbs used.
2484 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2485 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2487 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2489 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2490 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2492 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2493 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2495 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2496 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2498 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2500 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2502 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2503 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2504 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2505 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2507 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2509 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2510 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2512 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2513 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2515 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2517 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2519 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2521 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2522 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2524 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2525 added for tls authenticator.
2527 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2533 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2534 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2535 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2536 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2537 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2538 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2539 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2541 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2542 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2543 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2544 function when detected.
2546 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2547 cause callback expansion.
2549 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2550 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2551 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2552 instead of bool when processing it.
2554 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2555 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2557 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2559 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2561 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2563 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2564 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2566 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2567 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2568 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2569 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2570 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2571 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2573 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2574 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2577 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2578 version 3.3.6 or later.
2580 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2581 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2582 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2583 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2584 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2585 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2588 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2589 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2591 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2592 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2593 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2596 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2597 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2598 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2600 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2601 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2603 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2604 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2607 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2609 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2610 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2612 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2613 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2616 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2618 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2621 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2622 output list separator was used.
2627 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2628 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2631 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2632 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2634 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2636 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2637 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2643 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2645 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2646 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2647 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2648 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2649 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2650 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2652 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2653 utilities have not been installed.
2655 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2656 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2658 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2659 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2661 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2662 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2663 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2664 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2666 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2668 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2669 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2671 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2674 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2676 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2677 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2678 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2680 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2681 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2682 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2683 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2684 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2685 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2687 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2689 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2690 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2692 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2695 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2697 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2699 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2700 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2702 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2703 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2705 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2707 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2709 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2710 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2712 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2713 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2714 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2716 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2717 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2718 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2721 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2723 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2724 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2727 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2728 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2731 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2732 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2734 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2735 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2737 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2739 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2740 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2741 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2743 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2744 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2746 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2747 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2750 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2751 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2752 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2754 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2756 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2757 Christian Aistleitner.
2759 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2761 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2762 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2764 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2765 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2767 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2768 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2770 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2771 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2773 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2774 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2776 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2777 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2778 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2780 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2782 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2783 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2786 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2788 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2789 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2796 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2798 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2799 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2801 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2804 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2805 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2808 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2810 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2811 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2812 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2813 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2814 using channel bindings instead).
2816 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2817 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2818 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2819 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2820 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2823 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2825 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2827 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2828 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2830 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2831 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2832 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2834 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2836 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2838 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2839 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2841 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2843 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2845 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2847 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2848 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2850 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2852 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2853 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2856 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2857 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2859 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2860 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2863 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2865 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2867 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2868 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2870 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2873 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2874 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2876 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2877 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2879 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2881 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2883 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2886 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2889 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2891 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2892 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2893 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2894 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2896 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2898 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2899 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2900 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2901 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2904 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2905 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2906 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2908 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2909 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2910 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2911 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2913 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2914 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2915 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2916 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2917 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2918 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2919 delivery, as in LMTP.
2921 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2922 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2924 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2926 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2930 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2931 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2932 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2933 username as equal to the username.
2935 This change corrects that bug.
2937 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2938 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2939 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2941 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2943 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2944 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2945 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2946 NULL dereference and crash.
2948 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2950 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2951 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2952 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2954 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2956 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2957 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2958 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2959 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2960 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2961 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2962 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2963 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2964 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2965 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2966 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2968 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2969 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2971 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2972 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2975 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2976 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2977 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2978 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2979 an empty string is now equivalent.
2981 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2982 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2983 not performing validation itself.
2985 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2986 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2988 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2991 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2993 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2994 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2995 other false fix of the same issue.
2996 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2999 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
3000 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
3002 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
3003 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
3004 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
3006 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
3007 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
3008 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
3010 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
3012 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
3014 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
3015 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
3017 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
3020 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
3021 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
3022 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
3023 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
3024 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
3026 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
3027 the src/util/ subdirectory.
3029 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
3030 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
3033 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
3034 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
3035 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
3036 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
3038 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
3040 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
3041 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
3042 from multiple comments on this bug.
3044 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
3046 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
3047 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
3050 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
3051 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
3053 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
3054 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
3060 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
3062 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3068 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
3069 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
3070 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
3072 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
3074 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
3077 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
3079 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
3081 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3083 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3084 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3086 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3087 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3089 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3090 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3092 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3093 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3094 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3096 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3098 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3099 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3101 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3103 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3105 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3106 non-compliant senders.
3107 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3109 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3110 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3111 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3113 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3114 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3115 in spool file corruption.
3117 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3118 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3119 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3122 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3123 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3124 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3126 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3127 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3129 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3131 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3133 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3135 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3136 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3137 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3139 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3140 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3141 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3142 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3144 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3145 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3147 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3148 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3149 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3150 resolver implementation change.
3152 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3153 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3155 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3157 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3159 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3160 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3162 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3163 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3165 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3166 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3168 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3169 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3170 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3171 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3172 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3174 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3176 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3177 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3178 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3180 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3182 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3183 read-only, out of scope).
3184 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3186 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3187 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3188 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3189 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3191 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3193 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3194 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3195 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3196 real issues in debug logging.
3198 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3199 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3201 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3202 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3203 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3205 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3206 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3207 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3210 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3211 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3213 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3214 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3215 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3216 needs to override this, it can.
3218 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3219 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3220 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3222 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3223 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3224 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3225 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3227 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3233 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3234 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3236 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3238 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3241 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3242 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3244 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3245 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3246 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3248 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3249 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3250 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3251 not safe for signals.
3253 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3254 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3255 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3256 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3259 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3261 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3262 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3263 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3264 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3265 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3267 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3268 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3269 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3270 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3271 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3272 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3274 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3275 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3276 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3277 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3279 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3280 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3281 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3282 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3284 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3285 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3286 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3287 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3288 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3289 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3290 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3291 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3292 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3294 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3295 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3296 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3297 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3299 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3300 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3301 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3302 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3303 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3304 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3305 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3306 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3307 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3308 details in the main documentation.
3310 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3312 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3314 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3315 repository when doing development or release builds.
3317 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3318 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3320 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3321 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3324 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3326 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3327 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3329 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3330 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3332 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3333 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3335 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3336 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3338 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3339 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3341 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3343 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3346 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3347 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3348 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3350 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3352 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3354 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3355 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3361 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3363 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3364 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3366 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3368 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3370 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3373 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3374 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3376 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3377 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3379 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3380 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3382 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3385 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3386 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3388 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3389 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3390 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3391 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3393 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3394 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3400 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3403 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3404 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3405 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3407 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3408 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3410 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3411 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3412 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3414 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3415 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3417 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3418 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3420 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3421 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3423 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3424 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3426 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3427 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3429 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3432 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3433 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3435 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3436 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3438 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3439 SQL string expansion failure details.
3440 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3442 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3443 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3445 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3446 extern declarations in function scope.
3447 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3449 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3450 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3451 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3454 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3455 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3457 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3458 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3460 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3461 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3463 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3464 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3466 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3467 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3470 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3472 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3474 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3475 Patch by Simon Arlott
3477 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3478 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3484 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3485 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3487 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3488 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3490 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3492 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3493 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3494 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3496 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3497 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3498 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3500 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3501 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3502 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3503 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3505 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3506 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3507 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3508 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3510 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3511 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3512 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3515 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3518 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3519 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3520 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3521 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3522 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3528 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3529 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3530 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3532 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3533 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3535 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3537 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3539 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3541 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3543 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3545 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3546 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3547 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3548 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3550 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3551 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3552 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3553 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3554 more caution in buffer sizes.
3556 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3558 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3560 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3562 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3564 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3566 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3568 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3570 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3571 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3572 ignore trailing whitespace.
3574 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3576 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3579 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3580 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3582 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3583 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3584 Notification from John Horne.
3586 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3589 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3590 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3593 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3596 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3597 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3598 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3600 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3601 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3602 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3605 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3606 option (effectively making it always true).
3608 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3609 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3611 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3612 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3614 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3615 run-time user, instead of root.
3617 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3618 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3620 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3621 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3624 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3625 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3626 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3628 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3630 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3636 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3637 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3640 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3641 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3644 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3645 Patch from Alain Williams
3647 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3649 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3650 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3652 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3653 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3655 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3657 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3659 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3660 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3662 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3664 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3666 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3667 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3668 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3670 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3671 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3673 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3674 Patch by Simon Arlott
3676 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3677 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3683 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3685 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3687 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3689 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3691 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3697 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3698 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3700 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3701 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3704 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3705 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3706 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3708 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3709 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3711 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3712 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3713 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3714 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3716 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3717 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3718 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3720 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3722 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3724 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3725 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3727 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3729 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3730 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3731 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3732 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3734 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3735 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3737 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3739 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3741 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3742 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3744 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3745 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3747 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3748 that they are available at delivery time.
3750 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3752 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3753 incoming_port log selectors.
3755 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3756 setting expands to an empty string.
3758 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3759 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3761 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3762 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3764 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3765 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3767 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3768 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3770 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3771 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3773 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3774 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3776 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3778 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3779 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3781 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3782 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3784 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3786 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3787 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3789 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3791 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3793 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3796 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3797 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3799 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3800 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3802 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3803 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3805 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3806 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3808 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3809 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3811 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3812 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3814 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3815 plus update to original patch.
3817 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3819 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3820 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3822 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3824 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3826 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3828 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3830 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3831 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3833 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3834 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3836 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3837 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3839 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3840 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3842 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3844 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3846 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3848 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3854 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3855 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3856 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3858 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3859 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3860 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3861 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3862 build errors in sieve.c.
3864 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3865 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3866 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3868 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3870 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3872 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3874 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3880 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3882 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3883 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3884 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3885 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3886 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3887 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3888 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3889 for iplsearch lookups.
3891 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3892 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3893 previously such lookups could never work.
3895 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3896 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3897 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3899 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3902 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3903 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3904 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3905 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3906 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3907 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3909 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3910 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3912 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3913 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3914 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3915 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3916 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3917 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3919 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3922 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3924 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3925 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3928 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3929 by clients under certain conditions.
3931 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3932 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3934 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3936 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3937 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3939 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3941 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3943 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3945 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3946 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3948 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3950 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3951 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3953 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3955 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3957 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3958 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3959 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3960 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3962 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3963 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3964 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3966 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3967 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3969 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3971 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3973 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3975 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3976 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3977 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3983 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3984 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3987 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3988 issue a MAIL command.
3990 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3992 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3994 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3995 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3996 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3997 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3998 item. This has been fixed.
4000 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
4001 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
4003 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
4004 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
4006 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
4007 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
4008 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
4010 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
4012 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
4013 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
4014 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
4015 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
4016 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
4018 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
4019 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
4020 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
4022 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
4023 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
4024 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
4025 the server_setid option was incorrect.
4027 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
4029 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
4031 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
4032 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
4033 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
4034 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
4035 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
4037 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
4039 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
4040 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
4041 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
4044 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
4046 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
4048 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
4050 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
4052 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
4054 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
4055 no_callout_flush is set.
4057 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
4058 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
4059 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
4062 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
4064 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4065 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
4066 other ACL rejections are.
4068 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
4069 with slight modification.
4071 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
4072 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
4074 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
4075 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
4078 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
4079 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
4081 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4083 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4084 expansion side effects.
4086 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4087 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4088 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4091 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4092 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4093 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4095 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4096 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4097 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4098 were accidentally chopped off.
4100 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4101 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4102 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4103 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4104 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4105 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4106 pipelining has not been advertised.
4108 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4110 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4111 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4112 This has been fixed.
4114 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4115 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4116 reported on Solaris.
4118 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4119 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4120 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4121 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4122 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4123 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4124 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4126 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4129 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4131 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4133 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4134 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4135 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4136 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4137 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4138 criteria to be more general.
4140 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4141 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4142 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4143 host_all_ignored option.
4145 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4146 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4147 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4148 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4149 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4150 is what is supposed to happen).
4152 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4153 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4154 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4155 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4156 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4159 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4160 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4161 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4162 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4163 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4164 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4167 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4169 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4170 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4172 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4173 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4175 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4177 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4179 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4180 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4181 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4182 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4183 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4184 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4185 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4186 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4187 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4188 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4189 least in a lot of common cases.
4191 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4192 advertised in response to EHLO.
4198 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4199 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4201 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4202 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4204 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4205 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4206 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4208 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4209 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4210 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4211 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4212 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4218 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4219 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4222 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4223 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4224 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4226 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4227 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4228 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4229 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4230 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4231 rather than extend the field.
4237 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4238 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4239 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4240 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4243 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4244 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4245 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4247 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4248 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4249 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4251 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4252 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4253 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4256 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4257 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4258 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4259 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4260 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4261 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4262 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4263 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4264 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4265 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4266 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4268 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4271 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4272 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4273 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4274 ignores EPIPE as well.
4276 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4277 (quoted-printable decoding).
4279 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4280 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4282 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4284 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4286 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4288 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4289 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4291 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4294 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4295 miscellaneous code fixes
4297 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4300 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4301 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4302 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4303 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4304 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4305 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4306 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4307 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4309 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4310 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4311 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4312 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4314 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4315 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4316 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4317 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4318 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4319 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4320 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4321 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4322 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4324 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4327 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4328 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4329 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4330 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4331 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4332 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4333 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4334 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4336 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4337 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4340 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4341 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4342 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4343 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4344 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4345 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4346 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4347 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4348 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4349 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4350 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4351 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4352 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4354 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4355 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4356 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4357 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4358 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4359 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4360 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4362 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4363 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4364 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4365 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4366 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4367 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4368 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4369 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4370 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4371 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4373 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4374 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4375 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4376 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4377 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4379 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4380 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4381 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4382 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4383 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4384 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4385 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4387 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4388 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4389 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4390 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4391 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4392 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4395 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4396 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4397 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4400 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4401 if any retry times were supplied.
4403 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4404 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4405 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4407 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4409 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4411 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4412 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4413 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4414 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4415 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4416 before) are ignored.
4418 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4419 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4421 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4422 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4423 committing the later change.]
4425 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4426 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4427 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4428 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4429 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4430 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4431 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4432 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4433 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4435 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4436 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4437 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4438 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4439 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4440 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4441 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4442 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4443 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4445 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4446 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4447 hammering the server.
4449 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4450 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4452 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4454 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4455 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4456 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4458 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4459 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4460 one case where this was not true.
4462 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4463 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4464 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4465 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4468 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4469 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4470 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4471 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4472 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4473 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4474 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4475 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4476 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4479 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4480 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4481 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4482 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4484 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4485 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4487 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4488 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4489 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4491 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4493 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4495 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4497 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4498 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4499 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4500 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4502 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4503 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4505 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4506 be meaningful with "accept".
4508 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4509 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4511 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4512 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4513 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4515 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4516 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4517 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4518 there is data to show.
4519 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4521 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4522 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4523 as well as the number of messages.
4525 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4526 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4527 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4529 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4530 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4531 have a flag are now skipped.
4533 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4534 Added the -emptyok flag.
4536 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4537 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4539 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4540 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4541 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4543 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4546 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4547 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4549 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4551 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4552 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4554 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4556 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4557 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4558 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4559 contravention of the specifications.
4561 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4562 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4563 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4565 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4566 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4567 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4569 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4571 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4572 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4573 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4574 some point in the past.
4576 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4577 transport during callout processing was broken.
4579 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4580 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4582 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4583 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4585 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4586 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4588 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4594 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4595 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4597 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4598 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4599 there is data to show.
4600 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4602 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4603 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4605 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4606 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4608 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4609 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4611 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4612 submissions from trusted users.
4614 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4615 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4617 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4618 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4619 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4620 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4621 there is now a framework to start from.
4623 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4624 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4625 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4627 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4629 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4631 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4633 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4634 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4635 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4637 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4640 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4641 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4642 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4644 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4645 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4646 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4649 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4650 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4651 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4652 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4653 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4655 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4656 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4658 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4660 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4661 operations in malware.c.
4663 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4666 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4667 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4668 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4671 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4672 statements to "add_header".
4674 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4675 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4677 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4678 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4681 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4685 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4686 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4687 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4690 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4691 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4693 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4694 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4696 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4697 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4698 any possible encoding problems.
4700 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4701 but not after initializing Perl.
4703 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4704 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4705 apparently, which is not desirable.
4707 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4710 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4713 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4715 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4716 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4717 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4718 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4720 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4721 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4722 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4724 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4725 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4726 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4729 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4730 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4731 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4732 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4733 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4739 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4740 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4742 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4745 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4746 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4747 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4748 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4749 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4750 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4751 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4752 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4755 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4757 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4758 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4759 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4761 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4762 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4763 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4766 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4767 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4769 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4770 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4771 option (which defaults to 0600).
4773 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4775 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4776 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4777 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4778 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4779 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4780 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4781 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4783 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4789 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4790 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4791 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4792 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4793 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4794 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4797 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4798 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4800 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4802 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4803 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4804 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4805 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4806 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4809 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4810 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4812 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4813 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4814 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4815 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4816 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4818 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4819 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4820 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4821 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4823 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4824 be the same on different OS.
4826 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4829 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4830 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4832 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4835 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4836 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4837 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4838 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4839 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4840 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4843 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4844 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4845 when Exim was called.
4847 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4848 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4850 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4851 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4852 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4853 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4855 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4856 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4857 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4858 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4861 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4862 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4863 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4865 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4866 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4867 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4869 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4872 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4873 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4874 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4875 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4876 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4877 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4878 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4879 values from the SRV records were lost.
4881 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4882 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4883 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4885 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4886 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4887 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4889 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4890 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4891 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4892 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4893 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4894 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4895 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4896 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4897 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4898 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4900 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4901 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4902 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4904 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4905 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4907 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4908 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4909 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4910 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4913 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4914 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4915 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4917 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4918 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4919 PH/23 above applies.
4921 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4922 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4923 (for which there is an explicit test).
4925 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4927 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4928 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4929 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4930 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4931 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4933 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4934 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4935 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4936 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4938 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4939 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4940 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4942 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4944 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4946 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4947 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4948 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4950 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4951 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4952 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4953 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4954 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4956 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4957 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4958 the message gets confusing).
4960 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4961 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4962 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4963 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4965 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4966 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4967 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4968 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4971 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4972 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4973 the different processes.
4975 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4977 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4979 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4980 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4982 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4983 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4985 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4986 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4987 messages matching specified criteria.
4989 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4991 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4992 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4994 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4995 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4996 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4997 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4998 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4999 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
5000 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
5001 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
5002 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
5003 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
5005 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
5006 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
5007 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
5009 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
5011 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
5012 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
5013 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
5014 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
5015 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
5016 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
5017 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
5020 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
5021 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
5023 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
5025 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
5027 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
5029 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
5030 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
5031 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
5032 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
5033 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
5034 size of the count of files.
5036 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
5038 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
5041 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
5042 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
5043 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
5044 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
5046 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
5047 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
5048 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
5050 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
5051 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
5052 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
5053 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
5054 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
5056 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
5057 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
5059 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
5060 will now be deprecated.
5062 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5064 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
5065 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
5066 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
5068 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
5069 with very large, slow to parse queues
5071 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
5073 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
5075 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
5076 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
5077 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
5080 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
5081 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
5082 Sieve code now uses this.
5084 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5085 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5087 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5088 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5090 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5092 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5093 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5094 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5095 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5096 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5098 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5099 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5100 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5101 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5103 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5105 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5107 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5108 is preferred over IPv4.
5110 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5111 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5112 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5113 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5114 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5115 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5116 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5118 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5119 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5120 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5122 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5124 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5125 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5126 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5127 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5128 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5129 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5130 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5131 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5132 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5133 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5134 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5136 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5137 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5138 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5144 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5146 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5147 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5149 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5150 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5151 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5153 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5155 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5158 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5161 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5162 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5163 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5166 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5167 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5169 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5170 inside the third argument.
5172 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5173 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5176 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5177 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5179 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5180 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5182 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5184 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5185 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5188 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5190 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5191 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5192 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5193 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5194 identical. For example:
5196 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5198 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5199 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5200 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5202 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5203 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5204 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5205 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5207 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5208 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5209 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5212 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5214 o fixes some comments
5215 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5216 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5217 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5218 and documents the missing references header update
5222 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5223 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5226 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5227 Electronic Mail") by including:
5229 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5231 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5232 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5233 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5234 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5235 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5237 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5239 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5241 The auto-replied keyword:
5243 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5244 message by an automatic process,
5246 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5248 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5249 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5251 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5252 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5255 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5256 to the default Received: header definition.
5258 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5260 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5261 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5262 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5264 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5265 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5266 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5268 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5269 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5270 and treats the condition as false.
5272 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5274 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5275 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5276 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5277 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5278 not changing the active code.
5280 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5281 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5283 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5284 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5286 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5289 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5290 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5291 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5292 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5293 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5294 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5295 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5296 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5297 the text comparison.
5299 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5300 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5301 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5302 The same fix has been applied.
5308 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5309 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5312 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5313 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5315 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5317 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5318 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5319 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5320 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5321 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5323 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5324 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5325 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5326 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5329 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5337 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5338 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5340 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5342 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5344 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5345 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5346 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5348 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5349 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5350 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5352 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5353 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5356 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5357 ${stat: expansion item.
5359 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5360 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5362 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5363 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5366 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5368 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5371 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5372 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5374 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5376 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5377 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5378 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5379 the end of the subprocess.
5381 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5382 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5383 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5384 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5385 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5387 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5389 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5391 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5392 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5394 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5396 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5398 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5399 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5402 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5404 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5405 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5406 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5408 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5409 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5411 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5412 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5414 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5415 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5417 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5418 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5420 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5421 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5422 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5423 contributed by a Radius user.
5425 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5426 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5428 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5429 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5431 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5434 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5435 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5438 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5439 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5440 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5441 header lines when this was not necessary.
5443 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5445 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5446 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5447 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5450 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5453 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5454 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5455 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5456 return code was incorrect.
5458 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5460 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5462 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5464 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5466 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5467 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5468 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5469 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5470 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5473 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5475 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5476 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5477 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5478 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5479 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5480 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5481 which is clearly wrong.
5483 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5485 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5486 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5487 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5490 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5491 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5493 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5495 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5496 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5498 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5499 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5501 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5502 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5504 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5505 recipients, not senders.
5507 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5508 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5510 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5512 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5514 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5515 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5516 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5517 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5519 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5521 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5522 clock is set back in time.
5524 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5525 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5527 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5528 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5530 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5531 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5534 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5535 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5538 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5541 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5543 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5544 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5545 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5547 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5548 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5549 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5550 helo verification defer as a failure.
5552 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5553 actual error message.
5559 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5561 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5562 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5563 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5564 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5566 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5568 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5569 can still be requested.
5571 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5572 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5573 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5574 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5576 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5577 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5578 circumstances, but probably never did.
5580 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5581 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5582 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5585 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5587 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5588 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5590 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5592 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5594 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5595 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5596 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5597 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5598 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5599 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5601 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5602 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5603 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5604 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5605 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5606 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5608 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5609 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5611 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5612 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5614 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5615 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5617 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5619 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5621 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5623 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5625 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5627 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5629 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5631 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5632 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5633 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5635 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5636 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5637 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5638 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5640 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5641 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5642 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5644 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5645 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5646 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5647 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5649 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5650 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5653 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5654 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5655 should work with maildirs and everything.
5657 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5658 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5660 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5663 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5664 function for BDB 4.3.
5666 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5668 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5669 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5672 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5673 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5674 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5675 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5676 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5677 formatting function string_vformat().
5679 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5680 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5681 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5682 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5683 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5684 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5685 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5686 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5688 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5689 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5692 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5693 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5695 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5696 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5697 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5698 test. It is now used for both.
5700 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5701 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5702 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5703 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5704 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5705 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5707 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5708 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5709 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5712 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5713 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5714 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5716 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5717 experimental DomainKeys support:
5719 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5720 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5721 the control was given.
5723 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5725 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5727 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5729 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5730 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5731 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5734 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5735 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5736 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5737 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5738 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5739 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5742 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5743 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5744 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5745 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5746 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5747 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5749 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5750 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5751 do -d+all out of habit.
5753 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5754 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5757 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5758 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5759 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5760 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5761 record types that Exim uses.
5763 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5764 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5765 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5766 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5767 non-existent file that was broken.
5769 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5770 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5772 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5773 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5774 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5776 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5778 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5779 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5780 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5781 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5782 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5785 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5786 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5787 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5788 at a slight CPU cost.
5790 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5791 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5793 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5796 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5798 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5799 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5805 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5806 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5808 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5810 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5812 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5813 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5815 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5816 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5817 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5818 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5819 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5820 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5823 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5824 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5825 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5826 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5829 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5830 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5831 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5832 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5833 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5834 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5835 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5838 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5839 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5841 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5842 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5843 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5844 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5845 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5846 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5848 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5849 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5850 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5851 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5853 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5856 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5857 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5859 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5860 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5861 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5862 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5865 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5867 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5868 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5870 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5871 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5872 to what was transported.)
5874 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5876 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5877 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5878 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5879 spamd_address settings.
5881 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5882 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5883 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5884 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5885 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5887 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5889 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5890 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5891 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5892 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5893 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5895 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5896 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5898 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5899 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5900 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5901 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5902 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5903 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5904 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5907 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5908 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5909 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5910 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5911 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5912 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5913 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5916 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5918 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5919 driver and ACL definitions.
5921 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5922 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5924 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5925 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5926 understands it better than I do:
5928 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5929 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5931 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5932 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5933 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5934 => three warnings about OTP not working
5935 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5937 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5938 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5939 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5940 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5942 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5943 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5945 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5946 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5947 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5949 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5950 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5953 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5954 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5957 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5958 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5959 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5961 warn !verify = sender
5962 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5964 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5965 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5967 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5969 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5970 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5972 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5973 nomenclature these days.)
5975 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5976 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5978 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5979 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5980 . First host does not offer TLS;
5981 . First host accepts first address;
5982 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5983 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5984 . Second host accepts second address.
5985 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5986 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5989 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5990 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5991 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5992 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5993 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5995 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5996 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5998 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5999 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
6001 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
6002 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
6003 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
6005 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
6006 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
6009 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
6011 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
6012 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
6013 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
6014 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
6015 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
6016 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
6017 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
6019 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
6020 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
6021 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
6022 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
6023 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
6025 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
6026 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
6029 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
6030 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
6031 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
6032 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
6033 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
6034 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
6036 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
6038 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
6039 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
6040 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
6041 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
6042 printable escape sequences.
6044 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
6045 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
6048 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
6049 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
6052 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
6053 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
6054 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
6055 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
6056 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
6058 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
6059 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
6060 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
6062 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
6064 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
6065 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
6068 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
6069 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
6070 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
6071 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
6072 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
6073 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
6074 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
6075 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
6076 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
6079 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
6080 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
6081 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
6082 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6086 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6087 ----------------------------------------
6089 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6090 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6091 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6092 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6093 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6094 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6097 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6098 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6099 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6100 historical information.
6106 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6108 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6109 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6111 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6112 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6115 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6116 filter fails to execute.
6118 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6119 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6120 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6121 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6122 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6124 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6126 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6127 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6128 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6129 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6131 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6132 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6133 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6134 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6135 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6137 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6139 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6141 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6142 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6143 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6144 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6146 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6147 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6148 sender verification.
6150 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6151 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6153 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6155 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6158 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6159 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6161 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6162 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6164 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6165 information about exactly what failed.
6167 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6169 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6170 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6171 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6173 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6174 It is now set to "smtps".
6176 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6177 ignore_target_hosts.
6179 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6180 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6181 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6182 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6185 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6186 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6187 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6189 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6190 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6191 wake it up if nothing else does.
6193 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6194 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6195 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6198 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6199 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6201 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6203 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6204 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6205 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6206 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6207 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6208 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6209 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6210 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6212 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6213 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6214 than one IP address.
6216 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6217 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6218 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6219 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6221 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6222 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6223 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6224 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6225 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6228 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6229 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6230 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6231 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6233 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6234 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6237 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6238 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6239 $sender_host_address.
6241 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6242 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6243 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6244 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6245 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6248 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6250 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6251 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6253 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6254 just the host names, not the priorities.
6256 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6257 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6258 controlled by a keyword.
6260 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6261 multiple records are returned.
6263 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6264 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6267 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6269 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6270 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6272 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6273 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6274 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6276 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6278 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6280 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6282 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6283 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6284 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6285 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6286 because the tests only now provoked it.
6288 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6289 (this can affect the format of dates).
6291 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6292 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6293 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6294 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6296 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6298 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6299 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6300 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6301 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6303 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6304 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6305 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6307 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6310 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6311 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6312 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6313 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6314 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6315 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6318 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6319 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6320 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6323 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6324 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6325 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6327 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6328 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6329 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6330 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6331 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6332 so I produce this patch..."
6334 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6335 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6338 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6339 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6340 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6341 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6344 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6346 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6347 long debug lines gets shown.
6349 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6350 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6352 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6354 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6355 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6356 of $primary_hostname.
6358 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6359 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6360 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6361 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6362 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6363 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6364 by change 4.50/55 above.
6366 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6367 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6368 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6369 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6370 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6371 running as the user.
6374 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6375 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6376 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6379 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6380 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6382 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6383 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6384 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6385 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6386 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6388 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6389 This has been fixed.
6391 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6392 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6393 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6394 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6397 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6399 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6400 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6401 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6402 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6404 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6405 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6407 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6408 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6409 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6411 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6412 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6413 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6416 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6417 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6418 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6420 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6421 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6422 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6423 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6425 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6426 during host lookups.
6428 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6429 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6431 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6433 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6434 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6435 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6436 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6437 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6440 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6441 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6443 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6444 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6445 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6447 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6449 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6450 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6451 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6452 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6453 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6454 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6457 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6458 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6459 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6460 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6461 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6463 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6466 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6468 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6469 "vacation" handling.
6471 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6472 OS variants using glibc.
6474 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6477 ----------------------------------------------------
6478 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6479 ----------------------------------------------------
6485 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6486 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6489 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6490 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6493 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6494 filter fails to execute.
6496 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6497 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6498 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6499 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6500 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6502 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6503 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6504 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6505 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6507 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6508 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6509 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6510 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6511 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6513 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6515 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6516 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6517 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6518 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6520 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6521 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6522 sender verification.
6524 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6525 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6527 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6528 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6530 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6531 ignore_target_hosts.
6533 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6534 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6535 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6536 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6539 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6540 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6541 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6543 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6544 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6545 wake it up if nothing else does.
6547 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6548 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6549 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6552 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6553 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6555 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6557 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6558 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6561 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6562 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6565 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6566 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6567 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6568 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6569 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6572 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6573 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6576 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6577 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6578 $sender_host_address.
6580 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6582 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6583 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6584 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6586 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6589 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6590 (this can affect the format of dates).
6592 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6593 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6594 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6595 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6597 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6598 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6599 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6601 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6602 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6603 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6604 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6606 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6607 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6608 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6610 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6613 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6614 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6615 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6616 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6617 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6618 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6621 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6622 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6623 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6624 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6627 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6628 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6629 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6630 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6631 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6632 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6633 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6635 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6636 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6637 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6638 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6639 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6640 running as the user.
6643 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6644 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6645 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6648 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6649 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6650 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6651 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6652 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6654 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6655 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6656 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6657 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6660 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6661 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6662 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6663 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6664 because the tests only now provoked it.
6670 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6671 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6672 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6673 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6674 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6675 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6676 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6678 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6679 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6682 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6684 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6686 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6687 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6690 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6691 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6692 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6693 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6694 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6696 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6697 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6699 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6701 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6703 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6706 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6707 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6709 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6710 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6711 affecting debugging statements).
6713 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6715 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6716 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6717 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6718 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6719 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6720 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6721 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6722 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6723 after the received time, and all would be well.
6725 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6726 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6727 condition in an expansion string.
6729 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6731 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6732 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6733 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6734 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6735 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6736 job under whatever limits there are.
6738 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6740 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6743 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6744 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6745 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6746 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6749 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6750 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6751 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6752 binary data in such strings.
6754 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6756 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6757 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6758 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6759 failure, which is pointless.
6761 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6763 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6765 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6766 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6767 Sender: header lines.
6769 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6770 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6771 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6773 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6774 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6775 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6776 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6777 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6780 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6781 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6782 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6783 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6784 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6786 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6787 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6788 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6791 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6792 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6794 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6795 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6797 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6799 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6801 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6803 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6806 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6808 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6810 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6811 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6812 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6813 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6815 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6816 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6822 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6823 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6824 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6826 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6827 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6828 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6829 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6830 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6831 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6833 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6834 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6835 verification failure".
6837 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6838 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6839 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6840 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6842 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6843 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6844 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6845 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6846 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6847 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6848 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6849 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6850 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6851 treated as a timeout.
6853 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6854 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6855 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6856 not set for Exim filters).
6858 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6859 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6860 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6862 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6864 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6865 try to make them clearer.
6867 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6868 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6870 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6872 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6874 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6875 only the Cygwin environment.
6877 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6878 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6879 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6880 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6881 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6883 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6884 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6885 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6886 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6887 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6888 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6889 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6891 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6892 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6894 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6896 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6897 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6898 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6900 To: susanne@some.where
6902 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6903 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6904 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6905 of addresses in From: header lines).
6907 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6908 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6909 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6911 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6912 treated as non-personal.
6914 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6915 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6917 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6919 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6921 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6922 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6923 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6925 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6926 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6928 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6929 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6930 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6931 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6932 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6933 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6935 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6936 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6937 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6938 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6939 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6940 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6941 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6942 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6944 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6946 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6947 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6949 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6950 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6951 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6953 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6954 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6956 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6957 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6958 rather than long int.
6960 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6962 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6968 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6969 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6970 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6971 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6972 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6973 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6979 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6980 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6982 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6983 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6984 socklen_t is defined.
6986 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6989 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6992 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6993 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6994 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6995 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6996 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6998 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6999 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
7000 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
7001 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
7003 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
7004 of flapping under certain conditions.
7006 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
7007 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
7008 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
7010 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
7012 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
7014 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
7015 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
7016 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
7017 the duration of the SMTP connection.
7019 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
7020 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
7021 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
7022 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
7023 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
7024 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
7025 preserved with the message after it was received.
7027 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
7028 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
7029 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
7030 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
7031 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
7032 test suite worked just fine.
7034 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
7035 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
7036 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
7038 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
7039 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
7042 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
7043 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
7044 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
7045 does not fully solve it.
7047 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
7048 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
7049 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
7050 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
7051 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
7053 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
7054 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
7055 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
7057 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
7058 string, for example:
7060 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
7062 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
7063 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
7064 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
7065 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
7066 the routers could not see them.
7068 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
7069 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
7071 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
7072 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
7075 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
7076 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
7077 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
7078 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
7079 that needed quoting.
7081 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
7082 was not being matched caselessly.
7084 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7087 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7088 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7089 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7090 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7091 when use_sender is false.
7093 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7095 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7097 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7099 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7100 the configuration file.
7102 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7103 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7105 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7107 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7108 bytes in the message body.
7110 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7111 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7114 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7116 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7118 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7119 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7120 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7121 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7128 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7129 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7131 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7132 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7133 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7134 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7135 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7137 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7138 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7140 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7141 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7142 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7144 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7145 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7146 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7148 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7151 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7152 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7153 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7154 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7155 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7156 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7157 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7163 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7164 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7165 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7166 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7167 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7168 default (and expected) setting.
7170 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7171 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7172 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7173 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7175 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7176 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7178 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7181 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7182 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7183 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7184 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7185 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7186 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7188 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7189 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7190 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7192 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7193 part (NOT match_host).
7195 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7197 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7198 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7199 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7200 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7201 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7202 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7203 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7204 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7205 the same named file.
7207 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7208 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7211 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7212 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7213 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7214 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7217 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7218 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7219 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7221 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7223 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7225 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7227 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7228 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7230 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7231 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7232 before starting the TLS session.
7234 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7236 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7237 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7239 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7240 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7241 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7242 colon in the middle).
7248 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7249 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7250 multiple configurations are in use.
7252 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7253 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7254 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7255 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7256 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7257 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7259 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7260 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7262 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7263 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7264 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7266 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7267 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7270 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7271 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7273 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7275 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7276 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7278 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7286 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7287 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7288 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7289 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7290 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7292 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7295 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7296 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7297 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7298 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7299 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7300 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7302 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7303 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7304 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7305 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7306 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7307 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7308 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7311 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7312 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7313 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7314 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7315 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7317 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7319 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7320 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7321 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7323 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7325 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7326 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7327 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7330 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7331 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7333 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7334 Three changes have been made:
7336 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7337 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7338 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7339 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7340 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7342 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7345 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7346 the modified behaviour.
7352 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7355 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7356 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7358 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7359 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7360 try to track down a specific problem.
7362 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7363 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7364 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7366 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7369 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7370 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7371 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7372 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7373 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7374 some earlier ones do not.
7376 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7378 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7379 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7380 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7381 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7382 address literals are enabled, of course).
7384 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7386 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7387 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7388 by a command such as
7392 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7394 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7396 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7397 remained set. It is now erased.
7399 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7400 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7402 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7403 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7404 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7405 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7406 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7407 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7408 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7409 appropriate error code.
7411 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7412 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7413 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7414 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7415 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7416 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7418 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7419 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7420 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7422 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7423 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7424 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7425 terminate the header.
7427 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7428 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7429 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7431 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7432 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7433 (4.30/29). In particular:
7435 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7438 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7439 to write a maildirsize file.
7441 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7442 the transport, the new value overrides.
7444 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7447 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7448 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7449 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7452 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7453 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7454 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7457 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7458 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7459 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7461 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7462 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7465 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7466 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7467 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7469 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7471 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7473 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7475 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7476 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7479 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7480 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7481 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7482 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7483 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7484 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7485 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7488 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7489 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7490 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7491 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7492 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7495 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7496 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7497 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7498 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7499 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7500 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7501 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7502 cached value only when the same options are set.
7504 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7506 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7507 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7508 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7509 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7510 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7512 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7513 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7514 it is clearly obsolete.
7516 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7519 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7520 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7521 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7524 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7525 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7526 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7527 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7528 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7530 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7531 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7532 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7533 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7535 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7537 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7539 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7540 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7543 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7544 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7545 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7546 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7547 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7548 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7551 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7552 with the -f command-line option.
7554 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7555 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7556 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7557 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7558 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7559 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7561 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7562 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7565 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7566 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7567 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7568 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7569 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7570 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7571 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7572 buffer is too small.
7574 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7575 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7577 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7578 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7579 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7580 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7581 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7582 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7583 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7584 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7585 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7587 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7588 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7589 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7591 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7592 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7595 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7596 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7597 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7598 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7599 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7601 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7602 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7603 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7604 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7607 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7609 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7611 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7612 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7614 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7615 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7616 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7618 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7619 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7620 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7621 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7622 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7624 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7625 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7626 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7627 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7628 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7629 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7630 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7632 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7633 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7634 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7635 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7636 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7637 the test of how many are available.
7639 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7640 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7641 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7642 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7643 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7644 new message is started.
7646 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7647 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7649 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7650 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7652 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7653 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7654 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7657 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7658 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7659 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7660 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7661 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7662 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7663 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7665 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7666 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7667 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7668 interpreted as octal.
7670 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7673 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7674 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7675 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7676 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7677 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7678 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7680 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7681 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7682 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7683 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7685 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7686 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7687 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7688 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7690 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7691 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7694 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7695 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7697 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7699 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7700 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7701 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7702 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7704 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7705 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7706 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7707 supplied", which is not helpful.
7709 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7710 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7711 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7713 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7714 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7715 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7716 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7717 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7718 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7719 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7720 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7722 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7723 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7724 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7725 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7726 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7728 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7729 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7730 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7731 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7732 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7733 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7735 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7736 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7737 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7739 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7741 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7742 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7743 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7746 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7748 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7749 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7750 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7751 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7752 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7753 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7754 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7755 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7757 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7758 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7759 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7760 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7761 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7763 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7766 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7767 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7768 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7769 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7770 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7771 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7772 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7773 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7774 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7780 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7781 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7782 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7784 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7787 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7788 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7789 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7791 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7792 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7793 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7794 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7795 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7796 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7798 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7799 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7800 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7801 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7802 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7803 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7804 the Exim test suite.
7806 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7807 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7808 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7809 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7811 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7812 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7813 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7814 specify it in this variable.
7816 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7817 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7818 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7819 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7821 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7822 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7823 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7824 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7826 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7827 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7828 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7829 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7830 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7832 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7834 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7837 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7838 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7839 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7840 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7841 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7843 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7844 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7846 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7847 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7848 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7849 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7850 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7852 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7853 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7855 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7856 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7857 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7859 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7860 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7862 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7863 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7865 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7866 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7867 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7869 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7870 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7872 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7873 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7874 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7875 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7877 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7879 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7880 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7881 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7882 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7884 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7886 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7887 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7889 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7891 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7892 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7893 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7894 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7895 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7896 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7898 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7900 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7901 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7904 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7906 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7907 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7909 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7910 550 Sender verify failed
7912 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7913 the final line of the response.
7915 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7916 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7917 all other user lookups.
7919 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7922 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7923 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7924 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7925 result into an int without checking.
7927 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7928 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7929 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7931 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7932 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7933 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7934 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7936 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7939 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7940 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7942 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7943 to the empty sender.
7945 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7946 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7947 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7948 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7949 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7950 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7951 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7954 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7955 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7956 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7957 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7960 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7961 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7963 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7966 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7967 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7969 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7971 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7972 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7975 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7976 as soon as it is encountered.
7978 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7980 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7983 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7984 recognizes a tab character.
7986 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7987 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7988 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7989 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7991 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7993 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7996 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7998 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
8000 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
8001 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
8004 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
8005 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
8006 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
8007 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
8008 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
8010 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
8011 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
8013 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
8014 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
8015 list (.included file names were always shown).
8017 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
8018 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
8019 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
8022 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
8023 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
8025 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
8027 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
8029 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
8031 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
8032 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
8033 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
8034 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
8035 failures to open the logs.
8037 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
8038 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
8039 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
8040 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
8041 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
8042 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
8043 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
8049 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
8050 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
8051 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
8054 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
8055 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
8056 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
8058 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
8059 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
8060 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
8062 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
8063 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
8064 causing some misleading effects.
8066 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
8067 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
8068 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
8070 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
8071 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
8072 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
8073 queue-runner function directly.
8079 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
8082 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8083 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8084 was always written to the default place.
8086 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8087 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8088 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8090 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8092 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8094 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8095 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8096 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8098 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8099 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8102 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8103 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8104 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8106 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8107 command line option is disabled.
8109 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8110 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8112 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8114 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8116 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8117 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8119 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8121 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8122 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8123 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8124 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8125 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8126 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8128 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8129 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8132 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8133 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8135 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8136 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8138 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8139 received was valid base64.
8141 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8142 name of the variable that was being set.
8144 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8146 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8147 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8148 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8149 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8150 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8151 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8153 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8155 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8156 nor realm was specified.
8158 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8159 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8160 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8161 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8163 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8164 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8165 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8167 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8168 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8169 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8171 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8172 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8173 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8174 some systems use these upper case variants.
8176 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8177 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8178 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8179 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8181 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8183 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8184 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8186 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8187 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8190 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8192 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8193 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8194 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8195 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8197 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8200 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8201 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8202 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8204 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8205 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8207 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8208 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8209 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8210 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8212 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8213 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8214 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8216 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8218 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8219 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8220 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8221 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8224 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8225 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8226 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8228 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8230 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8231 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8233 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8234 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8236 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8237 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8238 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8239 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8240 when emails are that large.
8247 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8248 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8250 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8251 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8252 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8254 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8255 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8256 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8258 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8259 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8260 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8261 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8262 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8264 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8265 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8266 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8267 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8268 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8271 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8272 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8273 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8274 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8275 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8276 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8277 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8278 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8279 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8280 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8281 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8282 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8283 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8284 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8286 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8287 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8290 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8291 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8292 error should be diagnosed.
8294 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8295 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8296 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8297 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8298 appeared instead of "NULL".
8300 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8301 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8302 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8303 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8304 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8305 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8308 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8309 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8310 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8316 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8317 or receiver verification errors.
8319 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8322 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8323 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8324 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8325 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8327 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8328 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8329 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8330 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8331 shouldn't happen again.
8333 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8334 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8335 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8337 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8338 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8340 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8342 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8343 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8345 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8346 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8349 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8350 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8351 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8353 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8354 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8355 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8356 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8358 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8359 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8360 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8361 to define what should happen).
8363 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8364 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8365 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8367 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8369 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8371 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8372 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8374 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8375 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8376 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8377 structure in all cases.
8379 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8380 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8381 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8382 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8384 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8385 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8388 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8389 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8391 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8392 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8394 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8395 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8396 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8398 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8399 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8400 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8402 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8403 the book and for uniformity.
8405 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8407 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8408 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8409 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8410 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8411 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8412 non-existent command as the problem.
8414 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8415 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8416 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8418 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8420 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8421 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8422 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8424 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8425 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8426 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8427 timestamps using strftime().
8429 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8430 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8432 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8433 transport-time rewrites.
8435 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8436 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8437 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8438 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8440 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8441 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8443 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8444 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8445 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8446 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8449 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8450 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8451 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8452 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8453 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8454 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8455 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8457 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8458 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8459 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8460 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8461 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8463 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8464 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8465 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8466 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8467 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8468 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8469 remaining text gets split now.
8471 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8472 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8473 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8474 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8476 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8477 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8478 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8479 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8482 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8483 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8484 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8485 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8486 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8487 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8488 passed through if needed.
8490 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8491 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8492 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8493 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8494 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8495 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8497 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8498 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8499 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8500 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8501 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8503 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8504 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8505 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8506 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8507 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8509 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8510 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8513 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8514 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8515 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8516 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8517 mayhem of various kinds.
8519 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8520 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8521 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8522 the right test for positive values.
8524 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8525 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8526 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8527 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8528 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8529 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8530 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8531 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8532 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8533 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8536 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8539 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8540 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8543 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8544 the existing equality matching.
8546 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8547 dealing with inode numbers.
8549 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8550 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8551 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8553 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8554 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8555 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8556 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8559 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8560 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8561 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8562 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8563 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8564 relay addresses has also been removed.
8566 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8568 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8569 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8570 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8572 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8573 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8574 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8575 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8576 processing applies to CR:
8578 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8579 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8581 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8582 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8583 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8584 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8586 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8587 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8588 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8590 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8591 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8592 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8593 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8594 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8595 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8598 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8601 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8602 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8603 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8604 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8607 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8609 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8611 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8613 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8614 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8615 not considered personal.
8617 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8619 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8621 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8623 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8624 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8625 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8626 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8627 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8628 header lines, and spool format errors.
8630 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8631 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8632 for more flexibility.
8634 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8635 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8636 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8638 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8641 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8642 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8643 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8644 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8645 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8646 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8647 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8648 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8649 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8651 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8652 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8653 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8654 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8655 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8656 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8657 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8659 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8660 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8661 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8663 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8664 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8665 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8666 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8667 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8668 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8669 instead of killing the process with assert().
8671 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8672 than Unicode encoding.
8674 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8675 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8676 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8677 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8679 77. Added process_log_path.
8681 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8682 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8684 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8685 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8687 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8688 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8689 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8691 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8692 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8693 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8694 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8695 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8698 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8699 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8702 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8703 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8704 they will be used during message reception.
8710 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.