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 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequence reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
20 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
21 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
22 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
24 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
25 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
26 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
27 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
29 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
30 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
31 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
32 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
33 so could be handling tainted values.
35 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
36 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
37 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
39 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
40 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
41 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
44 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
45 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
46 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
47 to align better with RFC 6125.
49 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
50 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
51 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
52 by adding a release action in that path.
54 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
55 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
56 dynamically-created buffers.
58 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
59 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
60 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
61 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
63 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
64 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
65 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
66 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
68 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
69 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
70 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
72 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
73 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
74 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
75 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
77 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
78 excluded, not matching the documentation.
80 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
81 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
83 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
84 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
85 this was a coding error.
87 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
88 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
89 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
90 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
91 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
92 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
93 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
95 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
96 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
97 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
98 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
100 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
101 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
102 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
103 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
104 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
106 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
107 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
110 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
111 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
112 domain-parking registrar.
114 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
115 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
116 after removing the newline.
118 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
119 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
120 option set, which was previously used.
122 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
125 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
126 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
127 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
128 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
130 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
131 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
132 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
133 exim.dev.20160529.3).
135 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
136 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
137 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
139 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
140 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
141 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
144 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
145 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
146 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
148 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
149 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
150 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
151 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
154 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
155 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
156 there, handle PRX and TFO.
158 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
159 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
160 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
161 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
162 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
164 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
165 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
166 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
167 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
170 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
171 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
173 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
176 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
177 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
178 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
179 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
180 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
182 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
184 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
185 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
186 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
187 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
188 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
189 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
191 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
192 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
194 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
195 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
196 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
198 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
199 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
202 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
203 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
204 of a new variable: $auth4.
206 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
207 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
208 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
209 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
210 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
212 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
213 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
214 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
215 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
217 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
218 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
219 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
221 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
222 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
223 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
224 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
227 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
228 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
229 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
232 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
233 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
234 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
235 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
237 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
238 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
240 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
241 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
242 looked as if if might be one.
244 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
245 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
246 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
247 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
248 messages can show the proxy information.
250 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
251 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
252 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
253 "queue_time_exclusive".
255 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
256 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
257 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
259 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
260 making it unusable in complex expressions.
262 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
263 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
266 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
268 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
270 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
272 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
273 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
274 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
275 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
277 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
278 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
280 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
281 better. Reported by Qualys.
283 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
284 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
287 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
289 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
292 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
294 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
295 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
296 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
297 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
299 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
300 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
302 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
303 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
304 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
305 mode until after various protocol state checks.
306 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
308 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
310 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
311 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
313 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
316 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
317 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
318 executed child processes (if any).
320 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
323 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
324 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
325 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
326 been reported on other platforms.
328 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
330 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
331 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
332 Not supported on Solaris 10.
334 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
335 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
336 since fakereject was originally introduced.
338 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
339 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
345 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
346 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
347 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
349 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
351 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
352 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
355 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
356 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
357 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
359 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
361 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
363 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
364 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
365 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
367 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
368 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
369 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
371 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
372 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
374 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
375 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
378 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
379 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
380 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
381 should both provide the file and set the option.
382 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
384 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
385 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
387 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
388 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
389 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
390 Authentication-Results: header.
392 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
393 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
394 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
395 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
397 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
398 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
399 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
400 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
401 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
402 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
403 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
405 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
406 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
407 copies while it is still usable.
409 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
410 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
411 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
413 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
414 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
416 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
417 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
418 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
419 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
421 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
422 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
423 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
426 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
427 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
428 - the pipe transport command
429 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
430 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
432 - paths used by single-key lookups
433 Previously this was permitted.
435 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
436 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
437 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
438 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
440 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
441 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
442 support larger malloc requests.
444 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
445 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
446 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
447 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
449 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
450 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
451 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
452 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
455 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
456 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
457 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
458 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
459 data being length-specified.
461 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
462 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
463 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
464 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
466 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
467 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
468 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
469 not being properly tracked.
471 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
472 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
473 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
474 minute could be seen.
476 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
477 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
478 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
480 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
481 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
483 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
484 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
487 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
489 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
490 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
492 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
493 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
494 filesystem as sufficient validation.
496 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
497 argument is supplied.
499 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
500 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
501 access under Exim's current working directory.
503 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
504 Previously no event was raised.
506 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
507 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
508 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
511 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
512 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
513 the size of the signature hash.
515 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
516 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
518 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
519 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
520 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
521 dropped between messages.
523 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
524 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
525 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
526 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
528 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
529 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
530 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
531 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
532 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
533 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
534 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
535 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
536 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
538 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
539 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
540 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
542 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
543 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
550 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
551 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
553 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
554 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
557 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
560 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
562 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
564 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
565 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
567 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
568 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
569 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
570 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
571 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
572 suitably configured).
574 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
575 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
577 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
578 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
581 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
582 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
584 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
585 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
586 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
587 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
590 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
591 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
592 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
594 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
597 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
598 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
600 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
601 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
602 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
603 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
606 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
607 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
608 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
609 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
612 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
613 shared (NFS) environment.
615 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
616 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
619 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
620 on some platforms for bit 31.
622 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
623 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
624 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
625 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
626 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
627 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
628 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
629 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
631 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
633 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
634 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
636 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
637 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
640 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
641 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
644 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
645 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
646 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
649 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
650 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
651 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
653 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
654 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
655 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
656 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
657 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
659 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
662 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
663 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
664 be requested on all coneections.
666 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
667 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
669 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
671 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
672 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
673 one for these; the option was ignored.
675 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
676 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
677 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
678 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
680 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
681 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
682 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
685 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
686 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
687 error ignored was made.
689 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
691 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
692 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
693 values, to catch one form of exploit.
695 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
696 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
697 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
699 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
700 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
703 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
704 them in our smtp response.
706 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
707 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
708 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
709 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
710 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
712 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
713 link count into consideration.
715 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
716 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
718 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
719 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
720 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
723 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
725 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
727 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
729 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
730 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
731 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
732 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
734 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
736 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
737 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
740 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
741 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
742 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
744 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
745 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
746 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
748 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
749 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
750 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
751 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
752 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
753 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
754 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
755 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
757 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
758 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
759 resulted in an indefinite loop.
761 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
762 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
763 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
769 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
770 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
772 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
773 non-signal-safe functions being used.
775 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
776 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
777 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
779 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
780 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
781 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
783 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
784 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
785 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
786 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
787 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
790 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
791 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
793 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
794 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
795 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
796 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
797 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
798 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
799 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
801 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
802 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
804 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
807 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
808 Previously this would segfault.
810 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
813 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
814 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
815 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
816 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
817 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
818 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
820 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
822 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
823 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
824 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
825 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
827 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
829 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
830 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
831 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
832 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
834 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
836 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
838 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
839 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
840 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
842 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
843 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
844 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
846 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
848 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
849 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
850 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
851 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
853 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
854 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
855 promised '?' replacement.
857 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
859 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
860 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
861 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
862 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
863 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
865 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
866 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
867 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
869 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
870 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
871 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
873 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
874 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
875 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
877 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
878 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
879 hope that is portable enough.
881 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
882 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
883 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
884 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
886 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
887 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
888 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
890 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
891 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
892 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
893 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
895 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
896 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
898 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
899 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
900 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
901 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
903 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
904 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
905 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
907 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
908 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
909 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
910 the previous G, M, k.
912 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
913 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
916 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
917 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
918 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
919 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
921 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
922 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
924 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
925 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
926 off past the nul-terimation.
928 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
929 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
930 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
931 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
932 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
934 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
936 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
937 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
938 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
941 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
942 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
944 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
945 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
946 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
948 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
949 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
950 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
952 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
953 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
959 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
960 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
961 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
962 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
963 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
964 be defined in redis_servers.
966 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
967 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
969 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
970 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
971 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
972 extant use locations.
974 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
975 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
977 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
978 Previously only the last row was returned.
980 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
981 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
982 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
983 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
986 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
987 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
988 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
989 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
990 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
991 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
992 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
993 Main pool for expansions.
994 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
995 active in the testsuite.
996 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
998 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
999 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1000 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1001 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1004 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1005 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1008 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1009 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1010 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1012 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1013 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1014 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1016 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1017 rows affected is given instead).
1019 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1020 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1022 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1023 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1024 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1025 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1026 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1028 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1029 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1030 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1032 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1033 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1034 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1035 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1038 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1039 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1040 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1043 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1045 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1046 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1048 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1049 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1050 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1052 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1053 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1054 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1057 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1058 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1060 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1061 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1062 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1064 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1065 for the build is renamed.
1067 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1068 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1069 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1071 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1072 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1073 result replacing the original.
1075 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1076 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1077 and the resources needed to be freed.
1079 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1081 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1084 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1085 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1086 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1087 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1089 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1090 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1092 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1093 newer versions of the scanner.
1095 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1096 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1097 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1098 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1099 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1100 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1101 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1103 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1104 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1105 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1106 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1107 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1108 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1109 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1110 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1111 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1112 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1114 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1115 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1117 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1119 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1120 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1122 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1123 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1125 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1126 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1127 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1129 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1130 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1131 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1132 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1134 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1135 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1138 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1139 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1141 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1142 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1143 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1144 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1145 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1147 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1148 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1151 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1152 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1154 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1157 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1158 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1159 "bare" representation.
1161 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1162 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1163 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1164 corrupted the output.
1170 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1171 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1172 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1173 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1175 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1176 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1178 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1179 This permits better logging.
1181 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1182 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1183 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1184 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1185 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1186 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1188 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1189 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1192 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1193 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1194 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1196 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1197 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1199 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1200 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1201 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1202 client, there is no benefit for these.
1203 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1204 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1205 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1208 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1209 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1211 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1212 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1213 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1215 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1216 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1218 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1219 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1220 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1221 signature and again for transmission.
1223 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1224 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1225 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1227 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1228 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1229 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1230 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1231 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1232 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1233 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1235 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1236 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1237 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1238 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1240 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1241 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1242 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1243 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1244 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1245 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1248 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1249 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1250 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1251 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1254 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1255 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1256 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1257 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1260 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1261 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1264 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1265 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1266 banner-time rejection.
1268 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1271 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1272 is the name of a transport.
1275 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1277 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1278 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1280 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1281 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1282 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1285 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1286 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1287 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1288 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1290 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1291 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1292 initial verify call returned a defer.
1294 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1295 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1297 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1298 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1300 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1301 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1303 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1304 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1306 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1307 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1310 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1311 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1313 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1314 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1315 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1317 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1318 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1319 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1320 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1322 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1323 and confused the parent.
1325 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1326 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1328 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1331 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1332 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1333 out-of-order delivery.
1335 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1336 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1337 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1340 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1341 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1344 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1345 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1346 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1348 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1349 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1350 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1351 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1352 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1353 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1355 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1356 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1357 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1359 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1360 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1361 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1363 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1364 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1365 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1366 though a different problem.
1372 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1373 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1375 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1377 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1378 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1380 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1381 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1383 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1384 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1385 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1386 before acknowledging the chunk.
1388 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1389 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1390 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1392 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1393 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1394 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1397 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1398 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1399 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1401 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1402 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1404 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1405 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1406 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1407 body hash calculated value.
1409 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1410 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1411 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1413 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1415 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1416 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1418 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1419 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1420 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1422 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1423 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1424 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1425 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1426 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1427 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1429 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1430 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1431 past that check, despite the cost.
1433 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1434 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1435 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1437 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1438 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1439 TLS library to consume.
1441 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1443 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1445 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1446 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1447 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1448 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1449 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1450 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1451 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1453 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1455 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1457 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1458 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1459 should be warning-free.
1461 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1463 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1464 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1466 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1467 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1468 general solution here.
1470 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1471 already-broken messages in the queue.
1473 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1475 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1481 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1482 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1484 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1485 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1486 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1488 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1489 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1490 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1491 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1492 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1493 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1494 if one fails this test.
1495 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1496 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1498 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1499 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1501 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1502 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1504 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1505 in rewrites and routers.
1507 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1508 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1510 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1511 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1513 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1515 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1518 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1519 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1520 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1521 connection after a verify cache hit.
1522 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1524 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1525 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1527 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1528 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1529 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1530 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1531 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1533 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1534 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1536 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1537 Previously they were not counted.
1539 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1540 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1541 that needed the lookup.
1543 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1544 distinguished as "(=".
1546 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1547 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1549 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1551 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1552 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1554 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1555 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1557 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1558 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1561 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1562 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1563 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1564 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1566 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1568 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1569 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1570 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1572 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1573 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1574 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1577 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1578 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1579 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1582 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1583 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1584 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1586 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1587 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1590 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1592 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1593 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1595 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1596 are not in the system include path.
1598 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1599 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1600 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1601 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1603 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1604 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1605 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1607 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1609 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1610 an incoming connection.
1612 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1615 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1616 fallback to "prime256v1".
1618 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1619 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1625 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1626 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1627 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1628 client dropping the TLS connection.
1630 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1631 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1633 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1634 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1635 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1636 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1639 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1640 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1641 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1642 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1643 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1644 check on the next write.
1646 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1647 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1648 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1649 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1650 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1652 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1653 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1655 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1656 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1657 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1659 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1660 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1661 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1662 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1664 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1665 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1667 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1668 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1670 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1671 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1672 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1675 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1677 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1679 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1681 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1682 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1684 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1685 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1687 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1689 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1690 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1692 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1694 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1695 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1697 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1699 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1700 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1701 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1702 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1703 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1704 they will retry in-clear.
1705 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1706 at installation time.
1708 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1709 with the $config_file variable.
1711 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1712 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1713 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1714 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1715 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1717 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1718 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1719 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1720 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1721 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1723 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1725 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1726 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1727 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1728 list order is no longer honoured.
1730 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1731 for DKIM processing.
1733 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1734 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1736 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1737 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1738 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1739 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1741 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1742 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1744 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1745 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1747 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1748 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1750 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1752 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1753 cached by the daemon.
1755 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1756 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1758 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1759 keys are given for lookup.
1761 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1762 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1763 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1764 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1766 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1767 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1768 server-side so match that on older versions.
1770 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1771 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1772 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1774 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1775 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1777 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1778 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1779 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1780 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1781 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1782 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1783 initial truncated version.
1785 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1787 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1789 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1790 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1792 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1794 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1796 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1797 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1800 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1801 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1804 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1805 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1807 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1808 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1811 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1812 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1813 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1815 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1816 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1817 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1818 extraction. Accept either.
1824 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1827 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1829 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1832 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1833 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1834 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1835 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1837 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1838 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1839 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1841 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1842 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1843 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1846 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1849 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1850 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1851 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1852 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1853 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1855 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1856 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1857 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1859 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1861 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1862 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1864 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1865 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1867 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1870 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1871 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1873 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1874 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1875 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1877 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1878 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1879 specify a port-range.
1881 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1882 timeout value per server.
1884 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1885 now have the list separator specified.
1887 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1890 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1893 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1895 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1896 rather than the verbs used.
1898 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1899 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1901 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1903 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1904 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1906 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1907 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1909 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1910 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1912 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1914 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1916 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1917 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1918 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1919 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1921 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1923 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1924 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1926 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1927 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1929 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1931 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1933 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1935 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1936 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1938 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1939 added for tls authenticator.
1941 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1947 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1948 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1949 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1950 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1951 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1952 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1953 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1955 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1956 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1957 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1958 function when detected.
1960 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1961 cause callback expansion.
1963 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1964 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1965 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1966 instead of bool when processing it.
1968 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1969 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1971 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1973 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1975 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1977 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1978 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1980 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1981 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1982 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1983 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1984 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1985 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1987 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1988 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1991 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1992 version 3.3.6 or later.
1994 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1995 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1996 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1997 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1998 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1999 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2002 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2003 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2005 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2006 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2007 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2010 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2011 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2012 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2014 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2015 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2017 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2018 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2021 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2023 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2024 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2026 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2027 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2030 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2032 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2035 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2036 output list separator was used.
2041 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2042 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2045 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2046 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2048 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2050 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2051 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2057 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2059 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2060 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2061 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2062 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2063 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2064 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2066 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2067 utilities have not been installed.
2069 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2070 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2072 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2073 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2075 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2076 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2077 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2078 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2080 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2082 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2083 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2085 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2088 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2090 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2091 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2092 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2094 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2095 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2096 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2097 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2098 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2099 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2101 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2103 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2104 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2106 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2109 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2111 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2113 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2114 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2116 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2117 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2119 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2121 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2123 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2124 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2126 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2127 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2128 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2130 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2131 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2132 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2135 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2137 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2138 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2141 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2142 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2145 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2146 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2148 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2149 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2151 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2153 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2154 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2155 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2157 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2158 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2160 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2161 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2164 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2165 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2166 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2168 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2170 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2171 Christian Aistleitner.
2173 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2175 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2176 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2178 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2179 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2181 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2182 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2184 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2185 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2187 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2188 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2190 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2191 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2192 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2194 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2196 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2197 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2200 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2202 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2203 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2210 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2212 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2213 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2215 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2218 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2219 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2222 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2224 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2225 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2226 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2227 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2228 using channel bindings instead).
2230 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2231 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2232 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2233 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2234 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2237 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2239 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2241 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2242 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2244 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2245 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2246 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2248 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2250 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2252 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2253 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2255 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2257 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2259 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2261 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2262 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2264 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2266 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2267 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2270 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2271 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2273 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2274 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2277 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2279 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2281 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2282 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2284 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2287 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2288 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2290 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2291 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2293 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2295 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2297 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2300 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2303 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2305 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2306 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2307 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2308 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2310 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2312 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2313 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2314 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2315 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2318 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2319 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2320 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2322 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2323 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2324 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2325 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2327 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2328 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2329 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2330 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2331 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2332 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2333 delivery, as in LMTP.
2335 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2336 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2338 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2340 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2344 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2345 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2346 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2347 username as equal to the username.
2349 This change corrects that bug.
2351 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2352 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2353 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2355 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2357 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2358 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2359 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2360 NULL dereference and crash.
2362 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2364 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2365 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2366 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2368 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2370 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2371 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2372 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2373 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2374 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2375 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2376 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2377 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2378 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2379 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2380 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2382 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2383 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2385 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2386 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2389 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2390 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2391 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2392 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2393 an empty string is now equivalent.
2395 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2396 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2397 not performing validation itself.
2399 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2400 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2402 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2405 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2407 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2408 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2409 other false fix of the same issue.
2410 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2413 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2414 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2416 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2417 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2418 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2420 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2421 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2422 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2424 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2426 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2428 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2429 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2431 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2434 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2435 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2436 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2437 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2438 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2440 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2441 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2443 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2444 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2447 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2448 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2449 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2450 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2452 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2454 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2455 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2456 from multiple comments on this bug.
2458 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2460 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2461 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2464 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2465 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2467 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2468 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2474 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2476 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2482 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2483 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2484 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2486 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2488 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2491 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2493 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2495 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2497 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2498 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2500 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2501 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2503 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2504 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2506 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2507 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2508 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2510 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2512 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2513 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2515 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2517 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2519 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2520 non-compliant senders.
2521 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2523 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2524 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2525 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2527 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2528 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2529 in spool file corruption.
2531 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2532 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2533 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2536 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2537 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2538 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2540 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2541 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2543 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2545 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2547 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2549 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2550 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2551 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2553 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2554 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2555 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2556 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2558 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2559 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2561 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2562 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2563 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2564 resolver implementation change.
2566 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2567 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2569 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2571 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2573 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2574 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2576 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2577 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2579 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2580 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2582 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2583 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2584 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2585 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2586 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2588 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2590 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2591 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2592 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2594 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2596 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2597 read-only, out of scope).
2598 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2600 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2601 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2602 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2603 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2605 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2607 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2608 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2609 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2610 real issues in debug logging.
2612 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2613 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2615 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2616 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2617 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2619 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2620 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2621 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2624 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2625 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2627 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2628 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2629 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2630 needs to override this, it can.
2632 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2633 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2634 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2636 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2637 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2638 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2639 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2641 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2647 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2648 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2650 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2652 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2655 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2656 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2658 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2659 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2660 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2662 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2663 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2664 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2665 not safe for signals.
2667 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2668 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2669 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2670 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2673 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2675 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2676 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2677 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2678 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2679 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2681 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2682 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2683 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2684 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2685 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2686 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2688 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2689 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2690 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2691 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2693 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2694 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2695 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2696 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2698 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2699 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2700 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2701 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2702 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2703 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2704 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2705 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2706 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2708 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2709 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2710 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2711 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2713 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2714 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2715 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2716 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2717 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2718 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2719 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2720 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2721 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2722 details in the main documentation.
2724 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2726 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2728 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2729 repository when doing development or release builds.
2731 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2732 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2734 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2735 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2738 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2740 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2741 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2743 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2744 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2746 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2747 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2749 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2750 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2752 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2753 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2755 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2757 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2760 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2761 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2762 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2764 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2766 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2768 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2769 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2775 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2777 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2778 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2780 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2782 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2784 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2787 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2788 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2790 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2791 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2793 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2794 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2796 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2799 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2800 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2802 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2803 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2804 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2805 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2807 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2808 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2814 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2817 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2818 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2819 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2821 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2822 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2824 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2825 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2826 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2828 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2829 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2831 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2832 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2834 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2835 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2837 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2838 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2840 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2841 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2843 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2846 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2847 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2849 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2850 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2852 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2853 SQL string expansion failure details.
2854 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2856 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2857 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2859 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2860 extern declarations in function scope.
2861 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2863 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2864 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2865 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2868 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2869 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2871 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2872 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2874 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2875 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2877 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2878 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2880 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2881 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2884 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2886 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2888 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2889 Patch by Simon Arlott
2891 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2892 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2898 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2899 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2901 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2902 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2904 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2906 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2907 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2908 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2910 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2911 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2912 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2914 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2915 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2916 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2917 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2919 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2920 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2921 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2922 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2924 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2925 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2926 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2929 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2932 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2933 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2934 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2935 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2936 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2942 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2943 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2944 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2946 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2947 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2949 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2951 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2953 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2955 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2957 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2959 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2960 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2961 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2962 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2964 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2965 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2966 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2967 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2968 more caution in buffer sizes.
2970 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2972 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2974 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2976 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2978 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2980 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2982 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2984 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2985 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2986 ignore trailing whitespace.
2988 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2990 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2993 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2994 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2996 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2997 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2998 Notification from John Horne.
3000 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3003 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3004 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3007 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3010 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3011 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3012 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3014 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3015 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3016 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3019 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3020 option (effectively making it always true).
3022 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3023 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3025 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3026 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3028 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3029 run-time user, instead of root.
3031 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3032 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3034 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3035 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3038 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3039 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3040 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3042 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3044 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3050 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3051 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3054 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3055 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3058 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3059 Patch from Alain Williams
3061 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3063 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3064 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3066 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3067 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3069 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3071 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3073 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3074 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3076 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3078 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3080 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3081 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3082 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3084 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3085 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3087 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3088 Patch by Simon Arlott
3090 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3091 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3097 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3099 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3101 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3103 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3105 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3111 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3112 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3114 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3115 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3118 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3119 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3120 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3122 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3123 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3125 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3126 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3127 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3128 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3130 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3131 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3132 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3134 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3136 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3138 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3139 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3141 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3143 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3144 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3145 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3146 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3148 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3149 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3151 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3153 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3155 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3156 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3158 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3159 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3161 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3162 that they are available at delivery time.
3164 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3166 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3167 incoming_port log selectors.
3169 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3170 setting expands to an empty string.
3172 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3173 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3175 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3176 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3178 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3179 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3181 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3182 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3184 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3185 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3187 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3188 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3190 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3192 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3193 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3195 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3196 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3198 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3200 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3201 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3203 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3205 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3207 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3210 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3211 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3213 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3214 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3216 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3217 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3219 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3220 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3222 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3223 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3225 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3226 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3228 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3229 plus update to original patch.
3231 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3233 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3234 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3236 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3238 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3240 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3242 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3244 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3245 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3247 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3248 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3250 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3251 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3253 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3254 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3256 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3258 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3260 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3262 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3268 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3269 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3270 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3272 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3273 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3274 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3275 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3276 build errors in sieve.c.
3278 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3279 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3280 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3282 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3284 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3286 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3288 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3294 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3296 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3297 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3298 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3299 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3300 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3301 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3302 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3303 for iplsearch lookups.
3305 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3306 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3307 previously such lookups could never work.
3309 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3310 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3311 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3313 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3316 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3317 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3318 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3319 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3320 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3321 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3323 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3324 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3326 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3327 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3328 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3329 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3330 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3331 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3333 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3336 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3338 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3339 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3342 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3343 by clients under certain conditions.
3345 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3346 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3348 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3350 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3351 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3353 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3355 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3357 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3359 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3360 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3362 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3364 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3365 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3367 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3369 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3371 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3372 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3373 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3374 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3376 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3377 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3378 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3380 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3381 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3383 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3385 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3387 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3389 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3390 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3391 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3397 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3398 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3401 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3402 issue a MAIL command.
3404 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3406 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3408 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3409 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3410 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3411 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3412 item. This has been fixed.
3414 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3415 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3417 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3418 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3420 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3421 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3422 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3424 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3426 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3427 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3428 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3429 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3430 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3432 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3433 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3434 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3436 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3437 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3438 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3439 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3441 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3443 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3445 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3446 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3447 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3448 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3449 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3451 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3453 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3454 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3455 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3458 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3460 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3462 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3464 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3466 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3468 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3469 no_callout_flush is set.
3471 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3472 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3473 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3476 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3478 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3479 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3480 other ACL rejections are.
3482 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3483 with slight modification.
3485 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3486 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3488 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3489 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3492 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3493 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3495 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3497 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3498 expansion side effects.
3500 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3501 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3502 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3505 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3506 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3507 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3509 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3510 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3511 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3512 were accidentally chopped off.
3514 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3515 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3516 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3517 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3518 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3519 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3520 pipelining has not been advertised.
3522 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3524 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3525 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3526 This has been fixed.
3528 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3529 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3530 reported on Solaris.
3532 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3533 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3534 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3535 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3536 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3537 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3538 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3540 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3543 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3545 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3547 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3548 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3549 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3550 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3551 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3552 criteria to be more general.
3554 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3555 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3556 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3557 host_all_ignored option.
3559 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3560 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3561 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3562 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3563 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3564 is what is supposed to happen).
3566 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3567 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3568 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3569 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3570 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3573 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3574 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3575 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3576 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3577 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3578 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3581 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3583 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3584 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3586 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3587 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3589 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3591 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3593 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3594 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3595 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3596 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3597 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3598 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3599 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3600 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3601 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3602 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3603 least in a lot of common cases.
3605 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3606 advertised in response to EHLO.
3612 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3613 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3615 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3616 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3618 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3619 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3620 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3622 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3623 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3624 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3625 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3626 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3632 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3633 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3636 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3637 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3638 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3640 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3641 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3642 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3643 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3644 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3645 rather than extend the field.
3651 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3652 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3653 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3654 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3657 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3658 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3659 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3661 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3662 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3663 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3665 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3666 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3667 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3670 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3671 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3672 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3673 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3674 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3675 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3676 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3677 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3678 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3679 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3680 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3682 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3685 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3686 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3687 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3688 ignores EPIPE as well.
3690 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3691 (quoted-printable decoding).
3693 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3694 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3696 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3698 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3700 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3702 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3703 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3705 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3708 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3709 miscellaneous code fixes
3711 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3714 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3715 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3716 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3717 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3718 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3719 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3720 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3721 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3723 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3724 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3725 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3726 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3728 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3729 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3730 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3731 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3732 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3733 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3734 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3735 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3736 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3738 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3741 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3742 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3743 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3744 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3745 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3746 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3747 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3748 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3750 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3751 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3754 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3755 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3756 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3757 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3758 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3759 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3760 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3761 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3762 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3763 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3764 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3765 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3766 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3768 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3769 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3770 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3771 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3772 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3773 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3774 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3776 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3777 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3778 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3779 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3780 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3781 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3782 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3783 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3784 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3785 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3787 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3788 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3789 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3790 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3791 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3793 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3794 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3795 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3796 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3797 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3798 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3799 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3801 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3802 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3803 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3804 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3805 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3806 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3809 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3810 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3811 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3814 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3815 if any retry times were supplied.
3817 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3818 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3819 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3821 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3823 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3825 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3826 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3827 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3828 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3829 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3830 before) are ignored.
3832 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3833 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3835 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3836 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3837 committing the later change.]
3839 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3840 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3841 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3842 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3843 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3844 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3845 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3846 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3847 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3849 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3850 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3851 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3852 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3853 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3854 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3855 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3856 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3857 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3859 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3860 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3861 hammering the server.
3863 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3864 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3866 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3868 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3869 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3870 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3872 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3873 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3874 one case where this was not true.
3876 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3877 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3878 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3879 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3882 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3883 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3884 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3885 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3886 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3887 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3888 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3889 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3890 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3893 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3894 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3895 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3896 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3898 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3899 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3901 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3902 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3903 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3905 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3907 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3909 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3911 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3912 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3913 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3914 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3916 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3917 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3919 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3920 be meaningful with "accept".
3922 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3923 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3925 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3926 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3927 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3929 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3930 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3931 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3932 there is data to show.
3933 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3935 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3936 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3937 as well as the number of messages.
3939 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3940 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3941 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3943 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3944 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3945 have a flag are now skipped.
3947 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3948 Added the -emptyok flag.
3950 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3951 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3953 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3954 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3955 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3957 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3960 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3961 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3963 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3965 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3966 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3968 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3970 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3971 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3972 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3973 contravention of the specifications.
3975 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3976 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3977 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3979 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3980 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3981 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3983 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3985 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3986 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3987 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3988 some point in the past.
3990 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3991 transport during callout processing was broken.
3993 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3994 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3996 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3997 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3999 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4000 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4002 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4008 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4009 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4011 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4012 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4013 there is data to show.
4014 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4016 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4017 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4019 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4020 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4022 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4023 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4025 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4026 submissions from trusted users.
4028 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4029 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4031 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4032 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4033 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4034 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4035 there is now a framework to start from.
4037 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4038 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4039 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4041 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4043 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4045 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4047 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4048 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4049 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4051 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4054 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4055 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4056 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4058 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4059 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4060 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4063 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4064 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4065 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4066 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4067 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4069 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4070 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4072 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4074 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4075 operations in malware.c.
4077 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4080 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4081 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4082 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4085 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4086 statements to "add_header".
4088 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4089 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4091 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4092 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4095 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4099 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4100 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4101 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4104 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4105 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4107 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4108 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4110 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4111 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4112 any possible encoding problems.
4114 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4115 but not after initializing Perl.
4117 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4118 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4119 apparently, which is not desirable.
4121 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4124 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4127 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4129 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4130 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4131 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4132 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4134 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4135 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4136 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4138 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4139 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4140 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4143 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4144 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4145 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4146 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4147 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4153 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4154 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4156 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4159 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4160 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4161 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4162 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4163 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4164 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4165 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4166 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4169 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4171 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4172 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4173 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4175 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4176 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4177 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4180 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4181 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4183 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4184 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4185 option (which defaults to 0600).
4187 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4189 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4190 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4191 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4192 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4193 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4194 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4195 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4197 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4203 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4204 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4205 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4206 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4207 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4208 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4211 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4212 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4214 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4216 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4217 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4218 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4219 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4220 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4223 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4224 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4226 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4227 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4228 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4229 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4230 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4232 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4233 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4234 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4235 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4237 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4238 be the same on different OS.
4240 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4243 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4244 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4246 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4249 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4250 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4251 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4252 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4253 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4254 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4257 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4258 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4259 when Exim was called.
4261 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4262 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4264 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4265 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4266 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4267 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4269 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4270 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4271 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4272 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4275 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4276 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4277 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4279 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4280 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4281 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4283 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4286 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4287 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4288 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4289 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4290 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4291 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4292 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4293 values from the SRV records were lost.
4295 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4296 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4297 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4299 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4300 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4301 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4303 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4304 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4305 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4306 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4307 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4308 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4309 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4310 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4311 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4312 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4314 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4315 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4316 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4318 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4319 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4321 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4322 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4323 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4324 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4327 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4328 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4329 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4331 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4332 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4333 PH/23 above applies.
4335 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4336 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4337 (for which there is an explicit test).
4339 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4341 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4342 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4343 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4344 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4345 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4347 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4348 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4349 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4350 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4352 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4353 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4354 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4356 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4358 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4360 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4361 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4362 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4364 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4365 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4366 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4367 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4368 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4370 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4371 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4372 the message gets confusing).
4374 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4375 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4376 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4377 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4379 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4380 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4381 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4382 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4385 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4386 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4387 the different processes.
4389 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4391 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4393 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4394 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4396 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4397 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4399 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4400 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4401 messages matching specified criteria.
4403 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4405 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4406 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4408 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4409 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4410 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4411 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4412 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4413 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4414 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4415 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4416 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4417 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4419 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4420 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4421 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4423 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4425 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4426 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4427 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4428 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4429 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4430 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4431 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4434 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4435 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4437 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4439 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4441 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4443 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4444 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4445 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4446 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4447 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4448 size of the count of files.
4450 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4452 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4455 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4456 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4457 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4458 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4460 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4461 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4462 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4464 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4465 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4466 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4467 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4468 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4470 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4471 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4473 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4474 will now be deprecated.
4476 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4478 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4479 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4480 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4482 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4483 with very large, slow to parse queues
4485 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4487 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4489 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4490 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4491 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4494 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4495 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4496 Sieve code now uses this.
4498 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4499 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4501 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4502 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4504 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4506 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4507 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4508 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4509 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4510 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4512 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4513 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4514 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4515 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4517 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4519 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4521 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4522 is preferred over IPv4.
4524 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4525 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4526 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4527 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4528 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4529 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4530 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4532 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4533 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4534 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4536 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4538 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4539 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4540 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4541 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4542 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4543 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4544 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4545 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4546 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4547 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4548 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4550 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4551 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4552 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4558 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4560 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4561 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4563 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4564 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4565 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4567 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4569 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4572 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4575 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4576 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4577 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4580 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4581 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4583 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4584 inside the third argument.
4586 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4587 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4590 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4591 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4593 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4594 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4596 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4598 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4599 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4602 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4604 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4605 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4606 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4607 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4608 identical. For example:
4610 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4612 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4613 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4614 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4616 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4617 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4618 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4619 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4621 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4622 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4623 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4626 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4628 o fixes some comments
4629 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4630 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4631 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4632 and documents the missing references header update
4636 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4637 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4640 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4641 Electronic Mail") by including:
4643 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4645 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4646 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4647 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4648 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4649 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4651 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4653 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4655 The auto-replied keyword:
4657 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4658 message by an automatic process,
4660 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4662 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4663 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4665 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4666 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4669 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4670 to the default Received: header definition.
4672 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4674 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4675 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4676 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4678 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4679 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4680 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4682 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4683 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4684 and treats the condition as false.
4686 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4688 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4689 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4690 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4691 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4692 not changing the active code.
4694 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4695 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4697 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4698 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4700 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4703 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4704 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4705 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4706 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4707 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4708 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4709 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4710 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4711 the text comparison.
4713 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4714 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4715 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4716 The same fix has been applied.
4722 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4723 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4726 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4727 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4729 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4731 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4732 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4733 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4734 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4735 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4737 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4738 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4739 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4740 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4743 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4751 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4752 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4754 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4756 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4758 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4759 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4760 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4762 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4763 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4764 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4766 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4767 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4770 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4771 ${stat: expansion item.
4773 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4774 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4776 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4777 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4780 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4782 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4785 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4786 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4788 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4790 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4791 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4792 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4793 the end of the subprocess.
4795 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4796 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4797 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4798 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4799 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4801 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4803 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4805 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4806 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4808 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4810 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4812 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4813 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4816 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4818 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4819 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4820 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4822 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4823 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4825 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4826 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4828 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4829 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4831 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4832 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4834 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4835 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4836 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4837 contributed by a Radius user.
4839 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4840 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4842 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4843 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4845 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4848 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4849 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4852 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4853 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4854 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4855 header lines when this was not necessary.
4857 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4859 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4860 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4861 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4864 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4867 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4868 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4869 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4870 return code was incorrect.
4872 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4874 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4876 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4878 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4880 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4881 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4882 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4883 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4884 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4887 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4889 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4890 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4891 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4892 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4893 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4894 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4895 which is clearly wrong.
4897 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4899 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4900 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4901 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4904 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4905 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4907 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4909 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4910 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4912 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4913 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4915 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4916 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4918 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4919 recipients, not senders.
4921 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4922 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4924 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4926 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4928 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4929 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4930 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4931 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4933 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4935 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4936 clock is set back in time.
4938 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4939 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4941 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4942 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4944 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4945 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4948 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4949 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4952 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4955 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4957 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4958 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4959 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4961 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4962 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4963 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4964 helo verification defer as a failure.
4966 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4967 actual error message.
4973 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4975 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4976 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4977 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4978 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4980 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4982 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4983 can still be requested.
4985 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4986 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4987 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4988 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4990 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4991 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4992 circumstances, but probably never did.
4994 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4995 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4996 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4999 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5001 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5002 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5004 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5006 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5008 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5009 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5010 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5011 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5012 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5013 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5015 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5016 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5017 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5018 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5019 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5020 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5022 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5023 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5025 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5026 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5028 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5029 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5031 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5033 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5035 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5037 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5039 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5041 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5043 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5045 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5046 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5047 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5049 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5050 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5051 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5052 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5054 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5055 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5056 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5058 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5059 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5060 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5061 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5063 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5064 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5067 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5068 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5069 should work with maildirs and everything.
5071 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5072 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5074 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5077 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5078 function for BDB 4.3.
5080 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5082 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5083 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5086 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5087 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5088 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5089 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5090 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5091 formatting function string_vformat().
5093 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5094 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5095 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5096 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5097 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5098 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5099 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5100 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5102 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5103 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5106 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5107 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5109 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5110 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5111 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5112 test. It is now used for both.
5114 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5115 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5116 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5117 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5118 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5119 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5121 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5122 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5123 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5126 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5127 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5128 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5130 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5131 experimental DomainKeys support:
5133 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5134 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5135 the control was given.
5137 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5139 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5141 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5143 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5144 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5145 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5148 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5149 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5150 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5151 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5152 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5153 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5156 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5157 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5158 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5159 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5160 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5161 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5163 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5164 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5165 do -d+all out of habit.
5167 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5168 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5171 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5172 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5173 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5174 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5175 record types that Exim uses.
5177 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5178 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5179 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5180 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5181 non-existent file that was broken.
5183 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5184 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5186 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5187 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5188 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5190 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5192 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5193 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5194 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5195 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5196 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5199 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5200 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5201 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5202 at a slight CPU cost.
5204 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5205 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5207 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5210 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5212 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5213 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5219 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5220 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5222 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5224 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5226 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5227 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5229 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5230 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5231 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5232 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5233 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5234 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5237 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5238 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5239 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5240 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5243 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5244 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5245 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5246 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5247 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5248 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5249 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5252 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5253 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5255 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5256 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5257 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5258 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5259 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5260 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5262 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5263 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5264 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5265 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5267 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5270 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5271 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5273 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5274 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5275 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5276 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5279 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5281 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5282 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5284 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5285 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5286 to what was transported.)
5288 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5290 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5291 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5292 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5293 spamd_address settings.
5295 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5296 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5297 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5298 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5299 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5301 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5303 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5304 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5305 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5306 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5307 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5309 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5310 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5312 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5313 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5314 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5315 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5316 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5317 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5318 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5321 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5322 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5323 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5324 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5325 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5326 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5327 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5330 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5332 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5333 driver and ACL definitions.
5335 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5336 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5338 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5339 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5340 understands it better than I do:
5342 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5343 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5345 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5346 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5347 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5348 => three warnings about OTP not working
5349 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5351 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5352 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5353 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5354 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5356 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5357 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5359 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5360 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5361 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5363 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5364 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5367 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5368 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5371 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5372 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5373 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5375 warn !verify = sender
5376 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5378 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5379 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5381 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5383 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5384 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5386 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5387 nomenclature these days.)
5389 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5390 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5392 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5393 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5394 . First host does not offer TLS;
5395 . First host accepts first address;
5396 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5397 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5398 . Second host accepts second address.
5399 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5400 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5403 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5404 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5405 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5406 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5407 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5409 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5410 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5412 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5413 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5415 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5416 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5417 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5419 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5420 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5423 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5425 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5426 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5427 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5428 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5429 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5430 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5431 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5433 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5434 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5435 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5436 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5437 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5439 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5440 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5443 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5444 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5445 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5446 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5447 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5448 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5450 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5452 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5453 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5454 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5455 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5456 printable escape sequences.
5458 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5459 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5462 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5463 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5466 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5467 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5468 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5469 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5470 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5472 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5473 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5474 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5476 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5478 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5479 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5482 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5483 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5484 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5485 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5486 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5487 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5488 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5489 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5490 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5493 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5494 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5495 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5496 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5500 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5501 ----------------------------------------
5503 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5504 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5505 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5506 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5507 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5508 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5511 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5512 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5513 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5514 historical information.
5520 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5522 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5523 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5525 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5526 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5529 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5530 filter fails to execute.
5532 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5533 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5534 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5535 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5536 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5538 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5540 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5541 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5542 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5543 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5545 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5546 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5547 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5548 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5549 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5551 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5553 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5555 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5556 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5557 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5558 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5560 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5561 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5562 sender verification.
5564 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5565 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5567 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5569 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5572 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5573 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5575 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5576 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5578 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5579 information about exactly what failed.
5581 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5583 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5584 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5585 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5587 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5588 It is now set to "smtps".
5590 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5591 ignore_target_hosts.
5593 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5594 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5595 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5596 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5599 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5600 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5601 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5603 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5604 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5605 wake it up if nothing else does.
5607 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5608 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5609 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5612 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5613 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5615 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5617 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5618 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5619 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5620 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5621 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5622 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5623 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5624 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5626 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5627 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5628 than one IP address.
5630 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5631 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5632 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5633 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5635 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5636 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5637 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5638 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5639 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5642 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5643 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5644 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5645 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5647 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5648 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5651 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5652 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5653 $sender_host_address.
5655 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5656 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5657 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5658 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5659 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5662 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5664 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5665 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5667 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5668 just the host names, not the priorities.
5670 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5671 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5672 controlled by a keyword.
5674 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5675 multiple records are returned.
5677 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5678 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5681 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5683 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5684 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5686 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5687 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5688 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5690 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5692 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5694 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5696 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5697 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5698 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5699 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5700 because the tests only now provoked it.
5702 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5703 (this can affect the format of dates).
5705 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5706 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5707 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5708 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5710 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5712 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5713 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5714 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5715 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5717 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5718 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5719 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5721 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5724 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5725 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5726 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5727 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5728 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5729 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5732 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5733 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5734 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5737 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5738 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5739 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5741 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5742 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5743 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5744 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5745 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5746 so I produce this patch..."
5748 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5749 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5752 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5753 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5754 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5755 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5758 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5760 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5761 long debug lines gets shown.
5763 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5764 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5766 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5768 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5769 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5770 of $primary_hostname.
5772 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5773 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5774 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5775 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5776 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5777 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5778 by change 4.50/55 above.
5780 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5781 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5782 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5783 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5784 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5785 running as the user.
5788 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5789 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5790 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5793 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5794 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5796 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5797 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5798 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5799 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5800 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5802 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5803 This has been fixed.
5805 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5806 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5807 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5808 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5811 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5813 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5814 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5815 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5816 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5818 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5819 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5821 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5822 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5823 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5825 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5826 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5827 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5830 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5831 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5832 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5834 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5835 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5836 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5837 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5839 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5840 during host lookups.
5842 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5843 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5845 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5847 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5848 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5849 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5850 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5851 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5854 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5855 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5857 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5858 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5859 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5861 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5863 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5864 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5865 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5866 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5867 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5868 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5871 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5872 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5873 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5874 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5875 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5877 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5880 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5882 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5883 "vacation" handling.
5885 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5886 OS variants using glibc.
5888 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5891 ----------------------------------------------------
5892 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5893 ----------------------------------------------------
5899 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5900 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5903 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5904 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5907 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5908 filter fails to execute.
5910 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5911 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5912 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5913 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5914 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5916 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5917 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5918 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5919 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5921 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5922 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5923 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5924 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5925 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5927 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5929 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5930 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5931 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5932 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5934 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5935 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5936 sender verification.
5938 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5939 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5941 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5942 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5944 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5945 ignore_target_hosts.
5947 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5948 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5949 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5950 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5953 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5954 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5955 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5957 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5958 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5959 wake it up if nothing else does.
5961 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5962 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5963 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5966 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5967 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5969 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5971 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5972 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5975 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5976 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5979 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5980 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5981 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5982 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5983 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5986 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5987 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5990 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5991 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5992 $sender_host_address.
5994 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5996 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5997 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5998 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6000 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6003 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6004 (this can affect the format of dates).
6006 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6007 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6008 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6009 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6011 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6012 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6013 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6015 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6016 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6017 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6018 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6020 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6021 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6022 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6024 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6027 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6028 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6029 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6030 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6031 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6032 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6035 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6036 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6037 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6038 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6041 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6042 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6043 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6044 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6045 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6046 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6047 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6049 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6050 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6051 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6052 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6053 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6054 running as the user.
6057 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6058 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6059 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6062 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6063 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6064 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6065 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6066 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6068 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6069 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6070 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6071 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6074 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6075 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6076 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6077 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6078 because the tests only now provoked it.
6084 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6085 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6086 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6087 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6088 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6089 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6090 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6092 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6093 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6096 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6098 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6100 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6101 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6104 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6105 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6106 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6107 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6108 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6110 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6111 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6113 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6115 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6117 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6120 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6121 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6123 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6124 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6125 affecting debugging statements).
6127 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6129 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6130 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6131 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6132 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6133 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6134 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6135 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6136 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6137 after the received time, and all would be well.
6139 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6140 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6141 condition in an expansion string.
6143 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6145 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6146 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6147 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6148 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6149 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6150 job under whatever limits there are.
6152 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6154 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6157 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6158 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6159 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6160 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6163 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6164 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6165 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6166 binary data in such strings.
6168 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6170 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6171 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6172 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6173 failure, which is pointless.
6175 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6177 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6179 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6180 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6181 Sender: header lines.
6183 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6184 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6185 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6187 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6188 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6189 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6190 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6191 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6194 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6195 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6196 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6197 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6198 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6200 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6201 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6202 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6205 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6206 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6208 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6209 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6211 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6213 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6215 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6217 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6220 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6222 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6224 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6225 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6226 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6227 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6229 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6230 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6236 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6237 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6238 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6240 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6241 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6242 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6243 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6244 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6245 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6247 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6248 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6249 verification failure".
6251 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6252 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6253 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6254 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6256 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6257 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6258 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6259 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6260 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6261 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6262 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6263 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6264 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6265 treated as a timeout.
6267 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6268 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6269 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6270 not set for Exim filters).
6272 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6273 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6274 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6276 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6278 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6279 try to make them clearer.
6281 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6282 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6284 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6286 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6288 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6289 only the Cygwin environment.
6291 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6292 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6293 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6294 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6295 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6297 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6298 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6299 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6300 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6301 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6302 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6303 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6305 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6306 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6308 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6310 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6311 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6312 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6314 To: susanne@some.where
6316 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6317 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6318 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6319 of addresses in From: header lines).
6321 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6322 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6323 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6325 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6326 treated as non-personal.
6328 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6329 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6331 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6333 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6335 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6336 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6337 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6339 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6340 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6342 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6343 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6344 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6345 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6346 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6347 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6349 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6350 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6351 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6352 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6353 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6354 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6355 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6356 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6358 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6360 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6361 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6363 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6364 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6365 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6367 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6368 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6370 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6371 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6372 rather than long int.
6374 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6376 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6382 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6383 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6384 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6385 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6386 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6387 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6393 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6394 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6396 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6397 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6398 socklen_t is defined.
6400 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6403 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6406 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6407 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6408 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6409 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6410 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6412 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6413 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6414 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6415 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6417 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6418 of flapping under certain conditions.
6420 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6421 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6422 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6424 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6426 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6428 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6429 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6430 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6431 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6433 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6434 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6435 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6436 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6437 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6438 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6439 preserved with the message after it was received.
6441 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6442 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6443 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6444 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6445 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6446 test suite worked just fine.
6448 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6449 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6450 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6452 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6453 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6456 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6457 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6458 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6459 does not fully solve it.
6461 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6462 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6463 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6464 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6465 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6467 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6468 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6469 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6471 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6472 string, for example:
6474 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6476 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6477 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6478 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6479 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6480 the routers could not see them.
6482 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6483 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6485 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6486 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6489 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6490 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6491 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6492 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6493 that needed quoting.
6495 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6496 was not being matched caselessly.
6498 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6501 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6502 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6503 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6504 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6505 when use_sender is false.
6507 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6509 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6511 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6513 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6514 the configuration file.
6516 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6517 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6519 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6521 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6522 bytes in the message body.
6524 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6525 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6528 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6530 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6532 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6533 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6534 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6535 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6542 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6543 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6545 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6546 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6547 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6548 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6549 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6551 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6552 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6554 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6555 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6556 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6558 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6559 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6560 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6562 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6565 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6566 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6567 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6568 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6569 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6570 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6571 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6577 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6578 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6579 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6580 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6581 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6582 default (and expected) setting.
6584 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6585 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6586 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6587 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6589 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6590 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6592 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6595 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6596 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6597 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6598 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6599 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6600 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6602 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6603 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6604 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6606 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6607 part (NOT match_host).
6609 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6611 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6612 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6613 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6614 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6615 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6616 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6617 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6618 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6619 the same named file.
6621 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6622 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6625 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6626 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6627 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6628 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6631 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6632 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6633 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6635 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6637 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6639 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6641 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6642 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6644 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6645 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6646 before starting the TLS session.
6648 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6650 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6651 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6653 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6654 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6655 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6656 colon in the middle).
6662 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6663 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6664 multiple configurations are in use.
6666 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6667 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6668 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6669 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6670 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6671 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6673 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6674 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6676 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6677 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6678 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6680 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6681 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6684 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6685 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6687 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6689 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6690 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6692 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6700 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6701 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6702 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6703 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6704 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6706 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6709 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6710 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6711 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6712 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6713 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6714 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6716 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6717 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6718 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6719 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6720 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6721 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6722 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6725 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6726 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6727 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6728 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6729 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6731 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6733 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6734 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6735 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6737 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6739 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6740 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6741 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6744 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6745 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6747 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6748 Three changes have been made:
6750 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6751 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6752 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6753 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6754 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6756 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6759 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6760 the modified behaviour.
6766 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6769 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6770 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6772 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6773 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6774 try to track down a specific problem.
6776 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6777 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6778 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6780 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6783 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6784 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6785 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6786 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6787 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6788 some earlier ones do not.
6790 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6792 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6793 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6794 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6795 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6796 address literals are enabled, of course).
6798 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6800 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6801 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6802 by a command such as
6806 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6808 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6810 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6811 remained set. It is now erased.
6813 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6814 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6816 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6817 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6818 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6819 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6820 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6821 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6822 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6823 appropriate error code.
6825 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6826 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6827 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6828 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6829 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6830 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6832 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6833 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6834 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6836 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6837 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6838 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6839 terminate the header.
6841 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6842 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6843 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6845 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6846 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6847 (4.30/29). In particular:
6849 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6852 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6853 to write a maildirsize file.
6855 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6856 the transport, the new value overrides.
6858 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6861 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6862 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6863 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6866 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6867 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6868 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6871 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6872 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6873 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6875 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6876 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6879 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6880 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6881 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6883 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6885 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6887 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6889 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6890 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6893 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6894 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6895 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6896 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6897 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6898 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6899 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6902 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6903 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6904 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6905 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6906 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6909 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6910 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6911 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6912 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6913 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6914 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6915 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6916 cached value only when the same options are set.
6918 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6920 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6921 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6922 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6923 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6924 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6926 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6927 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6928 it is clearly obsolete.
6930 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6933 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6934 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6935 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6938 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6939 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6940 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6941 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6942 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6944 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6945 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6946 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6947 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6949 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6951 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6953 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6954 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6957 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6958 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6959 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6960 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6961 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6962 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6965 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6966 with the -f command-line option.
6968 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6969 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6970 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6971 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6972 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6973 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6975 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6976 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6979 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6980 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6981 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6982 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6983 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6984 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6985 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6986 buffer is too small.
6988 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6989 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6991 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6992 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6993 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6994 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6995 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6996 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6997 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6998 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6999 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7001 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7002 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7003 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7005 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7006 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7009 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7010 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7011 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7012 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7013 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7015 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7016 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7017 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7018 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7021 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7023 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7025 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7026 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7028 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7029 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7030 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7032 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7033 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7034 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7035 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7036 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7038 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7039 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7040 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7041 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7042 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7043 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7044 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7046 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7047 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7048 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7049 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7050 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7051 the test of how many are available.
7053 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7054 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7055 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7056 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7057 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7058 new message is started.
7060 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7061 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7063 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7064 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7066 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7067 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7068 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7071 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7072 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7073 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7074 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7075 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7076 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7077 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7079 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7080 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7081 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7082 interpreted as octal.
7084 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7087 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7088 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7089 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7090 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7091 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7092 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7094 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7095 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7096 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7097 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7099 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7100 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7101 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7102 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7104 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7105 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7108 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7109 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7111 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7113 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7114 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7115 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7116 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7118 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7119 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7120 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7121 supplied", which is not helpful.
7123 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7124 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7125 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7127 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7128 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7129 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7130 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7131 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7132 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7133 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7134 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7136 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7137 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7138 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7139 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7140 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7142 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7143 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7144 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7145 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7146 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7147 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7149 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7150 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7151 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7153 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7155 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7156 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7157 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7160 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7162 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7163 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7164 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7165 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7166 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7167 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7168 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7169 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7171 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7172 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7173 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7174 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7175 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7177 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7180 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7181 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7182 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7183 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7184 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7185 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7186 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7187 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7188 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7194 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7195 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7196 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7198 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7201 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7202 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7203 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7205 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7206 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7207 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7208 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7209 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7210 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7212 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7213 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7214 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7215 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7216 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7217 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7218 the Exim test suite.
7220 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7221 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7222 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7223 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7225 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7226 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7227 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7228 specify it in this variable.
7230 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7231 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7232 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7233 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7235 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7236 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7237 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7238 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7240 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7241 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7242 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7243 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7244 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7246 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7248 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7251 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7252 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7253 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7254 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7255 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7257 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7258 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7260 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7261 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7262 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7263 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7264 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7266 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7267 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7269 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7270 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7271 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7273 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7274 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7276 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7277 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7279 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7280 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7281 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7283 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7284 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7286 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7287 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7288 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7289 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7291 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7293 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7294 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7295 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7296 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7298 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7300 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7301 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7303 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7305 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7306 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7307 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7308 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7309 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7310 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7312 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7314 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7315 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7318 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7320 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7321 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7323 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7324 550 Sender verify failed
7326 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7327 the final line of the response.
7329 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7330 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7331 all other user lookups.
7333 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7336 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7337 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7338 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7339 result into an int without checking.
7341 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7342 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7343 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7345 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7346 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7347 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7348 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7350 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7353 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7354 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7356 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7357 to the empty sender.
7359 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7360 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7361 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7362 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7363 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7364 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7365 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7368 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7369 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7370 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7371 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7374 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7375 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7377 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7380 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7381 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7383 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7385 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7386 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7389 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7390 as soon as it is encountered.
7392 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7394 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7397 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7398 recognizes a tab character.
7400 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7401 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7402 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7403 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7405 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7407 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7410 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7412 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7414 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7415 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7418 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7419 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7420 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7421 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7422 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7424 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7425 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7427 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7428 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7429 list (.included file names were always shown).
7431 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7432 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7433 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7436 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7437 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7439 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7441 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7443 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7445 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7446 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7447 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7448 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7449 failures to open the logs.
7451 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7452 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7453 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7454 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7455 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7456 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7457 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7463 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7464 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7465 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7468 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7469 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7470 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7472 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7473 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7474 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7476 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7477 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7478 causing some misleading effects.
7480 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7481 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7482 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7484 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7485 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7486 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7487 queue-runner function directly.
7493 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7496 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7497 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7498 was always written to the default place.
7500 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7501 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7502 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7504 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7506 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7508 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7509 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7510 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7512 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7513 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7516 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7517 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7518 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7520 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7521 command line option is disabled.
7523 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7524 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7526 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7528 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7530 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7531 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7533 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7535 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7536 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7537 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7538 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7539 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7540 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7542 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7543 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7546 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7547 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7549 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7550 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7552 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7553 received was valid base64.
7555 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7556 name of the variable that was being set.
7558 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7560 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7561 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7562 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7563 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7564 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7565 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7567 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7569 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7570 nor realm was specified.
7572 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7573 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7574 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7575 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7577 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7578 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7579 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7581 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7582 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7583 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7585 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7586 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7587 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7588 some systems use these upper case variants.
7590 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7591 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7592 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7593 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7595 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7597 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7598 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7600 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7601 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7604 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7606 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7607 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7608 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7609 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7611 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7614 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7615 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7616 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7618 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7619 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7621 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7622 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7623 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7624 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7626 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7627 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7628 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7630 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7632 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7633 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7634 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7635 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7638 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7639 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7640 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7642 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7644 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7645 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7647 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7648 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7650 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7651 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7652 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7653 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7654 when emails are that large.
7661 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7662 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7664 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7665 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7666 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7668 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7669 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7670 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7672 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7673 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7674 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7675 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7676 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7678 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7679 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7680 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7681 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7682 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7685 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7686 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7687 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7688 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7689 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7690 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7691 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7692 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7693 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7694 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7695 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7696 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7697 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7698 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7700 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7701 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7704 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7705 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7706 error should be diagnosed.
7708 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7709 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7710 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7711 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7712 appeared instead of "NULL".
7714 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7715 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7716 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7717 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7718 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7719 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7722 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7723 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7724 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7730 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7731 or receiver verification errors.
7733 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7736 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7737 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7738 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7739 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7741 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7742 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7743 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7744 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7745 shouldn't happen again.
7747 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7748 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7749 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7751 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7752 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7754 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7756 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7757 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7759 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7760 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7763 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7764 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7765 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7767 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7768 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7769 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7770 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7772 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7773 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7774 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7775 to define what should happen).
7777 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7778 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7779 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7781 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7783 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7785 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7786 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7788 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7789 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7790 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7791 structure in all cases.
7793 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7794 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7795 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7796 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7798 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7799 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7802 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7803 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7805 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7806 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7808 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7809 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7810 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7812 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7813 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7814 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7816 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7817 the book and for uniformity.
7819 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7821 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7822 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7823 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7824 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7825 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7826 non-existent command as the problem.
7828 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7829 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7830 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7832 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7834 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7835 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7836 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7838 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7839 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7840 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7841 timestamps using strftime().
7843 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7844 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7846 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7847 transport-time rewrites.
7849 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7850 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7851 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7852 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7854 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7855 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7857 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7858 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7859 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7860 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7863 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7864 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7865 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7866 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7867 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7868 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7869 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7871 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7872 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7873 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7874 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7875 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7877 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7878 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7879 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7880 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7881 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7882 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7883 remaining text gets split now.
7885 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7886 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7887 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7888 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7890 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7891 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7892 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7893 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7896 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7897 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7898 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7899 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7900 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7901 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7902 passed through if needed.
7904 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7905 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7906 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7907 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7908 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7909 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7911 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7912 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7913 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7914 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7915 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7917 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7918 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7919 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7920 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7921 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7923 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7924 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7927 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7928 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7929 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7930 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7931 mayhem of various kinds.
7933 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7934 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7935 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7936 the right test for positive values.
7938 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7939 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7940 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7941 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7942 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7943 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7944 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7945 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7946 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7947 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7950 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7953 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7954 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7957 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7958 the existing equality matching.
7960 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7961 dealing with inode numbers.
7963 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7964 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7965 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7967 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7968 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7969 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7970 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7973 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7974 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7975 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7976 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7977 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7978 relay addresses has also been removed.
7980 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7982 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7983 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7984 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7986 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7987 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7988 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7989 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7990 processing applies to CR:
7992 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7993 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7995 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7996 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7997 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7998 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8000 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8001 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8002 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8004 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8005 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8006 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8007 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8008 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8009 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8012 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8015 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8016 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8017 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8018 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8021 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8023 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8025 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8027 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8028 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8029 not considered personal.
8031 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8033 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8035 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8037 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8038 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8039 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8040 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8041 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8042 header lines, and spool format errors.
8044 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8045 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8046 for more flexibility.
8048 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8049 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8050 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8052 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8055 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8056 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8057 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8058 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8059 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8060 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8061 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8062 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8063 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8065 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8066 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8067 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8068 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8069 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8070 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8071 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8073 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8074 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8075 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8077 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8078 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8079 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8080 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8081 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8082 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8083 instead of killing the process with assert().
8085 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8086 than Unicode encoding.
8088 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8089 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8090 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8091 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8093 77. Added process_log_path.
8095 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8096 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8098 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8099 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8101 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8102 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8103 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8105 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8106 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8107 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8108 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8109 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8112 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8113 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8116 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8117 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8118 they will be used during message reception.
8124 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.